Day 47 - Snow Canyon: Petrified Dunes
The Petrified Dunes are mountains of frozen sand sticking up out of a surrounding plateau.
Clouds still linger after the rainy last couple days. Definitely a visual asset to the already amazing dunes.
The Team approaches a summit.
The petrified dunes provide handy steps to facilitate the climb.
The Team approaches another summit.
The shapes are wild - as if they were cast and placed.
There are high desert puddles remaining from the rains of the past few days.
Red dirt -red rocks - but this definitely is not Sedona.
A narrow canyon separates two enormous dunes.
The Team approaches yet another summit. You get the idea.
Far above the West Canyon to the right.
Yet another incarnation of "we are small".
The Team on the canyon rim.
Proof that indeed there was a time that the New Zealand Kiwi was resident here.
The Team on yet another summit.
Lichen it on the dunes.
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