in south dakota we attend the twenty fifth annual two thousand and ten crazy horse folks march we are the crazy horse memorial for the twenty fifth annual crazy horse folks march happening for two thousand and ten the first weekend in june and so far yeah a good day the road trip here has been very wet for the most part and we're going to be heading up this road parking checking in and talking to a few folks and then begin our wa so after you park either in the dirt lot over this way in the main parking lot over that way or out towards the on the entrance where they have several buses that will take you name address etc pay your three dollars at one of the numerous tables and then you can get in line and wait for it to chairs for crazy horse bolts march and for those that have not seen any of my footage before we have to explain a little bit about what the folks march association is ok this both march association walked it originated in germany and that's where the name comes from is march it means people walk and all the walks are six point two miles or more and  you check in you get a map and you follow this map and this is the way i started because i didn't want to get lost ok and for those that don't remember how did you guys come to the crazy horse memorial this is our twenty fifth year and twenty five years ago they contacted crazyhorse well actually our club is only twenty five years old too and we were looking for places that we could do all the smart ships and so this is how it originated we started because they said we could and they had been wonderful to work with through the years they do a great deal and of course the first year we had maybe between three and four hundred people today it's always around ten thousand pounds and over the course of the weekend two days two days there is a three dollar fee and how does a breakdown as to where it goes ok this is an international organization and and us we have our headquarters in texas some of that money has to go to them and some of our money is goes back to the club we have for check points some of that money goes to them for helping and then it's a lot in two different places that  yes but they also get a lot of notoriety because the vote is marketing held this has become worldwide we have people from foreign countries as well as usually we have a good representation of the whole u s for these walks they what is it it's on t v it's a the a dot org or a website the web site yeah so you can you can adversary internet yeah she didn't care about the internet part well this is the only book smarts that my brother and i do and he got very interested when i showed him crazy horse for the very first time in two thousand and three and when he learned about the bolts march and that you could actually we got a van right up to the top of the first time and when he learned about the box march he made a point of saying we got to do this so every year we drive for about the people lined up getting ready to go eight o'clock is just about to happen some of the staff here and stay on the trail of course this is the starting line checking everybody has their orange card they will be checking the cards to make sure that your register so that they know they can keep track of people going up the mountain footwear as well as watching your step at times we just passed through an area as you can see just littered with pine cone like i say you have to be careful where you're walking and there is a specific treleaven though doesn't look like it little pieces of wood  continue down the trail rain some people have been known to do strollers with small children so it's that would be very interesting on this trail this year now it's going down a very long hill that has little trenches in it and so you need to be careful or say along the whole walk you need to be careful have good walking shoes or boots and in some cases what are you and my brother passing me by and as we continue further downhill some people are actually kind of running the course and there are some people who completed in less than an hour others who take over two hours and you can see the trench there to be careful and you can actually see where the water has been slowing down and stopping at different spots with debris oh there's a good run off done here sometimes so as we come down  hill and we're going to continue further down there is a checkpoint the first of four checkpoints and it is manned by the boy scouts of america troop whatever troop twenty five twenty five and you guys are out of south dakota yes custer ok they will check you off and then you can continue on you can buy snacks or fruit or just make donations up that way passing through the checkpoint it's going further and further down which means a long journey and i need to catch up to my brother so the volks march man is turning and going up l meaning that i've got even further to catch up in my brother as we continue up hill and we will continue so at this event it is also good to wear several layers so that you can if you get too warm you can cool off a bit and my brothers finally catching up to me behind the cowboy here he's blocking my brother you're doing ok yeah and we continue and as it continues around the corner here it's starting to go uphill even more uphill and you can see it going even further up there and like i say for as far as you went down you have to go further even and what you went down but each year it's a different trail this seemed to be a better as good a spot as any for people to take a rest so a lot of people are stopped catching their breath for a little bit as you can to the terrain not easy and i rather decide to wait for a moment while i'm shooting footage i'm ready to go again so i'm going to continue on so after coming up the hill it begins to level out a little bit for just a moment and then as we turn around it's going back downhill again through some woods  to the side over this way and over so through the clearing i have a phone or i don't think it actually works and the first set of santa candies so we are going to continue on up towards the next year when they catch up to my brother again who finally got ahead of me so after getting past that curve coming up hill more continuing uphill and probably a good five plus of the six point two miles is going to be like this because  you come out the long walk you then will be coming down this road even though we're going up part of it right now and this is our first  so we come to our second checkpoint and you guys are representing  but you guys doing this year common it's always a high school or kids group trying to raise money for something each one gets a little bit of money from the book smart you do the right and they also have water snacks and fruit so we will continue the road our final destination  the face so after passing the checkpoint following a trail for a little bit we now have to go downhill again which means we're going to be coming up hill again at some point and we continue so after coming off the trail and downhill little bit now we're go on uphill and the rock and the trees are making our way up the hill and as we come up the hill there's even water that has been running down the hill so you have to watch the for slick as my brother and his new made friends house continue up the hill struggling the terrain and leveling out a little bit here for just a bit and after leveling out for just a very short period of time now we go down again he said and continue on down onto a main arterial trail and before we do this is another of the stands for the laser light show that happened on the side of the mountain that they do in the evening  all different age groups coming through here different sites and shapes everybody going at their own pace as people continue down there's another stand here for the laser light show people coming down the hill and what the laser light show i look at and this entire monument will continue down the hill just a little further down the trail some old equipment laying about it's checkpoint number three as i hold my tags would be a lie and you are with what group custer volleyball and that's the high school ye ok so this group here checkpoint three was from custer high school and the volleyball team trying to raise money for their group with sales of also snacks and candy there's also a few santa can candies fruit you never know what you're going to get here sometimes late last year it was kind of raining at first and very fog and the trail is leading us past another laser light show and further up a trail our trail will continue over this way after having come this way and lots of people are stopping here for just a moment to get a slate for a picture from this  again horse's head in the center of the screen there here you can see a little marking off in the center of the screen going towards the nose and the face the only part completed as i said there are all kinds of people coming through here different age groups they've got two little ones on the back and front here's an old piece of equipment is on display comes through around the corner from where we were just a moment ago a different road this is definitely a different route than we have taken in the previous years some of it is there but some of it is different and will continue up around the corner here so after having come up the hill leveled out a little bit back downhill and off another side trail we may be heading for the main arterial to go up as well as come back down and along the trails besides mud and slime there are cow patties that you have to avoid people are taking pictures so i this is also a main arterial some of the people coming back down apparently and it may be the same road that we come back down on is even though we're over that way we're heading over this way so it turns out that this is our final leg going helicopter in the background somebody make the turn up this way continue up the hill and up this way before we even get to checkpoint for probably somewhere hopefully just beyond where those people are walking now as we continue  and the trees growing out of  is kind of the back side but shows you some of the magnificent of the rock mountain continue up catch up my brother so as we finish coming up the hill here to our fourth and final check point this one being what group are you representing and she signs up and gets back to me and then i continue up to the top and when i get back down i have to turn it in to a so folks are coming down this trail and connecting to our main trail here once they're top here and then to get up there so after coming up around the corner here we're on our final leg and after going around this last little bend come up to the main entrance area where we'll begin next so once at the of your first greeted by some of the mountain some work vehicles workshop headquarters up here there are ladders up to the very top and the way down there as part of the way that will be going that's where we just came from are some of the black hills the monument in just a moment and taking a look at some of the markings on the wall here some of the markings on the wall here and the numbers one two and three that was some of showing the patterns of blasting as they go out the wall the face of the mountain and i will go around the corner so as we start to look out over of words over this way through all the woods and finally coming up we'll go back down the trail over that way but first we're going to take a look a little bit more a round at the skyline here and directly this direction and that will be part of the inscription that will also be on a tablet that would be carved into the mountain at some point will be going back down that way we'll do a little piece up here before we leave as you can see and because people are now up here a beautiful day to it turned out to be a gorgeous day sun came out as we crested the top and uniform and lots of people enjoying themselves here and it's on you know no no i think the trail itself was a bit more strenuous this year i would agree with that though the more difficult because of all the pine cones and while they're putting those in rut yeah barking ten thousand well for the weekend about somewhere i think they'll get somewhere between ten and maybe fourteen now we're also the entire weekend that's a lot of people so of course my niece his daughter could not make it this year kelsey so maybe next year yeah school got in the way well finals go comes first and we'll be looking forward to doing this again next year making our twenty two hour journey return be here for a few hours time only with what time was announced on nine thirty year and it's a good cause and raise awareness for this event as well as raise help to raise a little bit of money for them and bring some food for the food drive three cans of food and three dollars a person for the volks march itself and i highly recommend checking it out of your trip every year and lots of people are watching us as we're doing this as the lady said off to the side there are lots of exercise but it's good exercise and of course i have the web site information at the end but of course it is crazy horse memorial dot org for more information a american book smarts association a v a dot org for the vox march information as well as general votes march information around the country facility ok so building down on the main campus there and hopefully talk to some folks about the process and how it's going to give me let's go ok so as we make our way down we can either come down this way or head down the direction that we can but if we come down this way it leads us to what they call the tunnel the tunnel is below the face the tunnel is where the arm which will one day be an arm and the forces  people are getting various kinds of shot the down the hill as i was saying it's all downhill at this point but it is rocky terrain and so you need to be careful as you walk and lots of people at the checkpoint coming up more people heading back down as we continue down someone probably with servile palsy making their way up showing that most anybody can actually make this trip and hundreds of people still coming up as we continue our journey down the shortest of probably three quarters of a mile or so we passed many of those still coming up t mountain and having come up probably about five point two miles through the terrain still making their way and they'll be exhausted as they go up but then they'll look happier like the folks coming down that are smiling and having seen the view and  and joined the walk back down at a much looser leisurely we were once already up there one or two and chewing on something but watching the hundreds of people stream by heading back down to the starting another look before we leave reverse side of that sign but you can see you never forget your dreams from coming down that road the road we just up hill to the finish line and as my brother crosses the finish line as we crossed it turns out that we do not have to turn in the cards normally we have turned in the cards but apparently people want to be able to keep them because i walked crazyhorse on it  now we will go inside the  actually fairly big and growing all over the wall the dormitory area there's one upstairs also where sixteen actually twenty one students locking doors this one happens to be handicapped accessible bathroom in a shower and as we continue through more jewelry just shot and while you can lots of memorabilia and pictures or work on the mountain for some of the living quarters question and his wife no w the cultural center where a lot well the native americans jewelry and other items for sale asked the question for more information on the memorial or the annual vokes march always occurring the first weekend in june please visit crazy horse memorial dot org and the a v eight dot org for additional walks please visit my website adventure t v dot com for regular updates information and links and as always thank you for watching adventure t