76.8 Loess exposed in roadcut on left. 77.0 Road construction materials area on left. 77.3 Smoky Hill Member exposed in draw on left at 10 o'clock. 78.5 Smoky Hill Member exposed in many places in large draw on right. 79.3 Bridge across draw. 79.4 Unconformity between Smoky Hill Member and Pleistocene loess exposed in roadcut on left. 79.5 Smoky Hill Member well exposed in miniature badlands on left. 80.1 Abandoned schoolhouse on right. Road to left at large sign leads to erosional features in Smoky Hill Chalk Member known as "Monument Rocks" and "Sphinx." 80.8 Loess exposed in roadcut on left. Badlands cut into Smoky Hill Member in draw on right. 81.0-81.2 Loesslike silt exposed in roadcut on left. 81.7-81.8 Alluvium, overlain by pebbly silt (colluvium), exposed in roadcut on left. Smoky Hill Member exposed in low roadcut ahead. 81.9-82.1 Smoky Hill Member, overlain by high-level terrace gravel, in roadcuts and natural exposures. 82.2 Crossing low alluvial terrace of Smoky Hill River. Note stone post on left, ahead, marked B.O.D. 1865. This and several similar posts on other well-travelled roads in the area mark the Smoky Hill Trail and route of the Butterfield Over- land Dispatch, a stage line that served the Smoky Hill River country from June 1865 to March 1866. The line was then sold to the Holiday Overland and Express Company and finally to The Wells Fargo & Co. Indian attacks and railroad con- struction terminated stage-line operations. 82.4 Bridge across Smoky Hill River. 82.7 Elkader, Kansas. 82.9 Low terrace alluvium, mantled by colluvium, exposed in roadcut on left. 83.1 High-level terrace alluvium (gravel and sand) in roadcut on right. 83.2 Junction U.S. Highway 83 and Logan County Highway 474. Turn right (west) on L-474. First cuts on L-474 are in high-level terrace alluvium. 83.5 Bridge across Ladder Creek. 84.1 High-level terrace alluvium (gravel) exposed in roadcut. 84.2 Loess exposed in roadcut. 86.5 Smoky Hill Member (middle part) exposed in badlands on left. 87.6 "T" intersection. Turn right (north). 88.1 Bend in road at gate leading into pasture. Turn right onto trail leading into unfenced range. 88.7 Wire gate at end of trail. STOP 8. Cross fence and walk through pasture to head of closest canyon. Turn around and retrace trail to county route. 89.3 Junction trail and county road. Retrace county roads to U.S. 83. 94.3 Junction Logan County 474 and U.S. 83. Turn left (north) on U.S. 83. Retrace route to junction with road to Russell Springs. 43