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| Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado © Doug Hickok All Rights Reserved Not the Sahara. No. Not the Arabian or the Gobi or the Kalahari. This is Colorado, the Great Sand Dunes of Colorado. They are the tallest in North America at 750 feet high. Winds blowing across the San Luis Valley brought sands from the San Juan Mountains and pilled them up at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains over a period of about 1 million years. Just to give you an idea of scale, those ant-like figures leaving behind trails of tiny tracks are people climbing the dunes, one standing triumphant at the top of High Dune. Average hiking time to the highest dune is about 4 hours round trip. Slipping and sliding in the sand is just part of the fun of going up. Rolling and tumbling down maybe the fastest way back! |
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Go West VI - Great Sand Dunes
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I'd definitely roll down! So impressive!
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant photograph Doug. Bravo in spades!
ReplyDeleteis impressive to see how different territories take turns, I think it was spectacular to see everything live
ReplyDeleteWOWman......Thats a FANTASIC picture !!!!
ReplyDeletegreat composition and colors.
Greetings, Joop
A Dream Image!
ReplyDeleteamazing shot!
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing photo! The contrast between colors and the sharpness are all perfect :) thanks for your comment on my blog. Come back!
ReplyDeleteNiesamowity widok. W dół łatwo zejść, ale do góry nie chciałabym się wspinać po tym piasku. Pozdrawiam.
ReplyDeleteAmazing view. Go down easily, but I would not want to top climb the sand. Yours.
Excellent shot! The contrasting colors really make everything pop out.
ReplyDeleteWonderful photo!Doug.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely AWESOME! Great capture!
ReplyDeleteLove photographing dunes, even small one at beaches around here. The texture!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant article Doug,very well done!
ReplyDeleteThe image is breathtaking!
Léia
Love these things so much. Simply amazing!
ReplyDeleteAwesome and powerful picture !
ReplyDeletejust amazing! my first impression was that it is maybe Africa!
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I never could have guessed this was in the US. Just great.
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
Filip
Knowing some Spanish would be quite useful in Colorado, I think.
ReplyDeleteWhat? No chairlift? No way, I'm climbing that, D.
Can I sand toboggan there?
Now, that'd be fun.
Lovely shot! :o)
Each photo on this travel is unique, Doug. So much variety! I love them all.
ReplyDeletebrilliant image, doug, and you could have fooled me ... it does look like the sahara (or what i think it looks like ... ;-))
ReplyDeleteFantastic, this picture is amazing! It looks surreal.
ReplyDeleteI believe you. It´s no Sahara, but it´s GREAT!!!!
ReplyDeleteA special sight of these dunes with a beautiful sky.
Wonderful shot.
Greatings, my friend Doug.
This is a fantastic shot! Love the contrast between the dunes and the sky. Great depth of field too!
ReplyDeleteNicely composed of what looks like a great location. I like the simplicity and correlation between the piled up sand and piled up clouds
ReplyDeleteVery impressive: we seems to be in the Sahara here! I didn't know that one could find sand dunes in USA! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day.
wow, what a great photo, superb work there.
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