[Leica] Great Sand Dunes National Park

[George Lottermoser]

On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> Spectacular!
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> 
>> We’re currently finishing up our first major (3 weeks) RV trip. One of the
>> most memorable stops was at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in
>> Colorado. Here prodigious amounts of sand produced over eons by erosion of
>> the San Luis Mountains has been carried by prevailing westerly winds across
>> the San Luis Valley, eventually getting deposited as the wind becomes
>> turbulent at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Easterly winter
>> winds push the sand back down off the mountains so that it has accumulated
>> in a field miles across and about 225 m/750ft high. From up close at the
>> base, the dune field is awesome (in the old sense, before the word was
>> bleached of its meaning), massive, serene, dwarfing even the cloud shadows
>> that fall on it.
>> 
>> Here is a link to my favorite several images:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/dunes/

+1
and THANKS for the memories

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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