ZeeJay - Apr 2, 2021 7:19 am - Hasn't voted
Hard sandIt's been interesting reading your reports on places I've been. I climbed Sand Mountain Jan 2019 during the government shutdown, so I didn't have to pay. The access road was unplowed and it was midweek, but I still saw an ATV. Fortunately, not until I was done. I had a lot more snow than you, but still encountered bare spots of unexpectedly hardened sand and wished for microspikes. I came to the conclusion that it was frozen. I had imagined billowy piles of soft sand with soft footing, but that was far from the case. I looked back at my pictures and I have a similar picture of where you turned around. The dune was a bit different for me, with two distinct sides, with the left about 1.5' higher, and a wee little 2" wide depression separating the two. I think I must have walked with the edges of my boots in that depression.
nader - Apr 2, 2021 2:29 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Hard sandThanks for reading and voting,
Very different that all the other sand dunes I have seen (Colorado, Death Valley CA, New Mexico, Michigan etc). The cliffs on top really blew my mind. Is that not a real sand dune but a mountain buried in sand? Either way very interesting.
I now wish I had spent more time exploring the rest of the big dunes or the no motorized vehicles parts.
Utah is an amazing place.
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