Throughout the day we were surrounded by an ominous weather system. Dark clouds were on the horizon and in the rear view mirror as we toured the area. We managed to be either ahead or behind the system all day, but as we made our way back to Rapid City from Sturgis, Deadwood, Lead and Silver City we noticed that fog was setting in as we drove up the mountain. The higher we climbed, the more dense the fog became. I glanced along the side of the road and noticed some white stuff. The further we went the thicker and heavier it got. I mentioned to Joe that it looked like snow. Then you could make out that it was piles of hail. We just missed a pretty intense hail storm of nickel size hail. You could see that the mountain sides were covered, the ground around the trees was covered, and the sides of the road were covered. I can only imagine if you were on a bike how that must have felt. Ouch! People were stopping along to take pictures. We consider ourselves lucky - what our car might look like if we'd been in the middle of that. We were lucky we missed that bit of action.
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