Vast and Sandy
Another trip to the sand dunes was taken in the midst of winter. Alexis was in town so I dragged her on the three hour trip down to one of the stranger national parks. We lucked up and the morning haze which hung around the Front Range on the drive down, burned out or blew away, so we were left with bluebird skys.
The goal of the day was to have a photoshoot for several awkward gifts to give my long time mortal enemies and friends, Ben and Nick. They day also held some other great landscape photo that didn’t include myself. Hiking up the dunes, Alexis wasn’t a fan of the lack of oxygen, but intrigued the the opportunity of a photoshoot, she pushed on.
As we finished the shoot, we left the dunes, and saw deer grazing in front, thus more pictures were taken. On the last stop before dark, we drove up and hiked into Zapata Falls. Normally, the stream is rushing water over the falls, however being in February the falls were frozen solid. This prime foreign landscape, allowed for another impromptu shoot. The water was cut back far into rock, creating a cave like setting, with oozing water ice. Even though there were several feet of ice all around, you could still hear the trickle of water underneath.
Leaving the falls we had one more adventure planned. We went to the local Mexican Buffet in Alamosa. This by far was the best Mexican buffet I have feasted upon.
