Yesterday we stopped at Sand Dune National park on our way to Mesa Verde. It was amazing we were just driving along when BAM a huge pile of sand with a green mountain rising above it. We hiked up the sand dune in one hour, we didn't even go up to the highest point that takes like 2-3 hours to hike up. There was 1.5 cubic miles of sand in the sand dune, the highest dune, Star dune was 750 ft tall. The weird thing was a creek, Medano creek, was running along the bottom of the sand dune and you had to cross it to get to the dune. (our feet were very sandy) We, the children, earned a ranger patch and t-shirt, the overall favorite part of the dunes was running down. Garrett tried to sled down the dunes he did o.k...and you are probably thinking SLED!?! but yes people were sledding down the dunes on these wooden skate board looking things. Then we went to Mesa Verde National Park.
Today we were at Mesa Verde National Park, it was a amazing experience. The way these people built houses on the side of the cliffs was just mind blowing. The only way to some of them was by scaling a wall that had foot and hand hold! We had trouble even some times when going back up canyon because the steps were so steep. We took two tours one of Cliff Palace and the other of Balcony House (were we climbed a 32 foot ladder), then we explored Spruce Tree House they were all breathtaking and interesting to learn about. There were 5,000 buildings from these people left behind and we only saw a few!
Here are some pictures:
Just Kidding! They are taking to long to load so I am going to bed now. I will post them tomorrow.
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