2. 2008

White Sands, NM

A brief stop in the desert, where we took a hike through the white sand dunes.
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A large grasshopper sits where he died under the bright New Mexico sun.
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A large grasshopper sits where he died under the bright New Mexico sun.

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  • Kelsey makes tracks for the top of another dune.
  • Beautiful curves fill the landscape with majesty.
  • Kelsey leaps from a chunk of hardened gypsum and touches the sun before coming back to earth.
  • A long dune rolls away in front of Tracy as she wanders along.
  • 360 plus degrees of the sandy landscape of White Sands National Monument, with Tracy watching at either end.
  • Kelsey and Tracy are specks in the distance in the rolling white dunes.
  • Foregoing the airborne antics of Kelsey and I, Tracy makes her own descent to the bottom of a dune and subsequently gets too dizzy to stand.
  • A stitched panorama of Kelsey taking off down a dune, and walking away after the jump at the bottom.
  • Kelsey takes a sandy beating after a flip from the tip of a dune.
  • A hard landing bounces Kelsey's entire body after an amazing aerial move from the summit of the dune.
  • Sand dunes wander away forever into the distance.
  • The surface of the gypsum is scattered with darker colors in some places.
  • A thousand lines of wind travel away to the top of a dune.
  • Wind makes tracks down the surface of the dunes.
  • Tracks tell stories that are read easily if one spends the time to learn their alphabet.
  • Sandy windblown lines travel into the distance.
  • Our turnaround point on the hike was the Alkali flats, a featureless section of desert running along the edge of the dunes.
  • A tuft of grass makes its meager existence on the alkali flats.
  • A large grasshopper sits where he died under the bright New Mexico sun.
  • One of the only living species we encountered, these beetles were always prepared to dig in at the slightest sign of attack from a predator.
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