For being a desert, there actually isn’t that much sand in Death Valley. There’s only a couple places where the winds are right to collect enough sand to make sizable dunes, and that’s where we eventually wound up.
The Dunes
Of course, there’s always a downside to there being a bunch of sand in one spot. I got some grains into my camera and it broke, so this is the last shot you’re going to get. I wish I had been able to keep taking picture, but such is life. In any event, one of the neat things about a mound of sand is that if you knock out a small chunk of it, the sand above will flow down to fill in the space, forming a neat little shelf that moves up the dune until it gets to the top.
Falling Sands
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