Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist