We thought camping might be finished for the year, but caught a good autumn weather weekend and packed up for the Dunes. Took off Friday after work and showed up really late to the campground, so it was another fun surprise to wake up to our surroundings.
Such a bizarre geology here, sand dunes like I grew up with on the Lake Michigan shores, yet nestled alongside the Sangre de Cristo range in the Rockies. Really beautiful, stark contrasts of sand and rock. They say these dunes are a deposit from wind currents carrying ancient desert sands across the San Louis Valley, then dropping the particles as the air stalls up against the Cristos.
Fun times slinging the Frisbee and running around the slopes.
Took the scenic route home, including tossing a couple rounds at the alley in Alamosa.
