On July 1st, we traveled from Pagosa Springs to The Great Sand Dunes National Park. We made a lunch stop at
Three Barrel Brewing in Del Norte. The beer and food was good. It is worth a stop. We stayed at the Great Sand Dune Lodge right outside the National Park. After watching the US game, we went into the Park. Medano Creek was dry at the day use area in the Park. The wind was blowing harder than I had experienced on previous visits. The wind has been known to blow there. Anyway, Carter and I walked the farthest out on the dunes, which wasn’t that far. This is the only photo I took from that hike.
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| Carter |
That evening at the lodge, a highly entertaining lightning show appeared over the dunes. I didn’t capture any lightning, but I got some nice pictures around sunset.
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| View from the Great Sand Dunes Lodge |
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| Stacy and Cara on their porch at the Lodge |
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| Sunset |
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| The Dunes |
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| Sunset - San Juan Mountains in the distance |
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| Another sunset photo |
The next day we went back out on the Dunes. It was windy, but it was nowhere near as bad as it was the day before. Medano Creek was flowing at the day use area. Jim and I made it to the top of High Dune.
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| My parents making their way onto the Dunes |
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| Jim |
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| Jim on top of High Dune |
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| The Dunes from the top of High Dune |
After hiking the Dunes, we hiked to Zapata Falls. After lunch, we drove to Salida, the next stop of the tour.
-MM
2 comments:
Great pictures. Beautiful place.
Loved seeing your pictures of the beautiful countryside and your family. Looked like you had a lot of fun. Tiernan and Liam went out to Colorado this summer with their dad. They went white water rafting and sliding on sand dunes while they were there.
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