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Great Sand Dunes are awesome!
This morning we got up bright and early so we could leave our hotel between 7:30 and 8:00. We had a 3-hour drive to the Great Sand Dunes National Park, which ended up being even longer due to some road construction by Fort Garland. We finally arrived around 11:00 a.m. and were amazed as soon as we saw the sand dunes off in the distance, nestled in …
Rocky Mountain High
... so thin, you could only take a dozen steps then rest. I now have some idea of what my poor patients go through every day just trying to do daily activities. We made it to the summit, Gary Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing LizNay. Both ended up with altitude headaches but was well worth the journey. We are having a quite day today, checking out the town - walking on the flat!!!!
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Overnight in Alamosa
Not much to say. We stopped in Alamosa to break up the trip to Durango from Colorado Springs. Learned from the campground hosts, that the San Luis Valley Car Show has over 400 cars for their 32nd. Sure has grown since we were there for their 18th. ...
I did it!
... up the dune. But when I saw how steep the dunes were that we had to go down, I couldn't believe I had come up those same dunes! If there hadn't have been an older couple ahead of us so that I could see it really COULD be managed, I think I would still be there now. So I kinda huffed and puffed and whined all day, but really I had such a great time. It was an amazing hike, with scenery unlike anything I've ever seen. We made ...
WHAT A DAY!!
... skies, we continued down a footpath to the base of the dunes – about 30 square miles of sand piled up like a massive mounds of meringue at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Early explorer John Fremont described the sand as “exactly that of the sea in a storm, except as to color, not the least sign of vegetation existing thereon.".
Our plan did NOT include hiking the dunes – we knew we did not have the time, or probably the ...
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