Badlands - from the French "mauvaises terres � traverser", describe any area where erosion has exposed soft rocks and formed these features :

	steep barren slopes
	intricately carved shapes
	numerous small chainage channels
	narrow stream canyons, dry most of the year.

Erosion began about half a million year ago and has never stopped (1 inch a year). Without plant roots to bind the steep slopes of soft rock, the Badlands wall continues to retreat...

Door trail.

Dany at the top of the wood ladder on Noch Trail - 1.5 mile roundtrip