I have been to Bear Butte several times. It is a very beautiful place but it has had a couple of very bad forest fires. I have done pipe ceremonies on the summit three times now. Being up there I have felt like I’m on top of the world. The first time I was on the top I started to walk south along the spine when a voice came to me and said: “take off your shoes, this is a sacred place”. So I went back to the wooden deck and left my boots there then proceeded to walk. Also on two occasions two different corn snakes blocked my passage temporarily. The first time the snake was huge and was across the road when I was driving out, and then it disappeared. The second time it was a smaller snake on the trail about half way up the mountain. I almost stepped on this one and then it too disappeared. (A third encounter with the same kind of snake was in the basement of a building I was renting for a shop here in Wisconsin. This guy was blocking the stairs. I finally got him outside.) With the sacredness of Bear Butte I cannot see how a bikers bar could have been allowed to be built within site of the mountain. The noise of the motorcycles and the “music” disturbs the People doing Vision Quest or Sweat Lodge at the mountain.