Posts Tagged ‘Hiking’

Geology at 30mph

Now I will tell you about the second day of my weekend, or Monday.  The first day’s events are recorded in the post previous to this one
Since I stayed up until 2am the night before, I had a very hard time getting up the next morning at 7:00am to make it to my [...]

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Stealthy Bison

This weekend (Sunday and Monday since those are the days I have off…we’ll call it the weekend at least) was incredibly busy.  I pretty much was doing something every second of the entire two days.
On Saturday, Tess and I got up early and went hiking out to Dollar Lake.  It’s a place that’s still within [...]

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Marmots and Gooseberry Bushes

Last Monday (the 23rd), me and my friend, Tess, went hiking up a trail called South Zapata Lake Trail.  It ends at, you guessed it, South Zapata Lake.  Some general information: it’s 5 miles one way, it starts at around 9000 feet and ends at the high end of 11,000 feet, it’s uphill the whole [...]

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Hiking and Talking

Life and Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (or GRSA as it’s known to the National Park Service) is wonderful.  Really!  Where else could you look outside your front window and see the tallest dunes in North America?  Where else could you go for a 10 mile hike through pristine wilderness just by driving [...]

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