Great Sand Dunes, 8/22/08

Flower in the dunes
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cricket or grasshopper holes?
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There were a lot of grasshoppers
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These plants have long roots.
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These tracks had no people tracks with them.
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Sidewinder tracks?
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Sidewinder tracks?
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The black sand can be picked up with a magnet.
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Avalanche!
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This is only 2-3 inches high, but it looks like a fracture in a snow avalanche.
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Every time I stepped it caused a slide. This goes down into a big pit.

Those are my tracks coming down.

Slide movie (9 seconds)

Climbers at the summit.