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San Luis sunset

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Monday, April 4, 2011



San Luis sunset

ITW 18

San Luis st pk, Colorado San Luis valley

NOT the town of San Luis, Colorado ... that's 30 miles south of here.

Laveta pass ... break out into Plains / arid plain / desert.

Hwy 160 west straight roads down to Plains. sagebrush forever.

Ft Garland. Onto Alamosa. North on hwy 17. pass by a Solar collector plant / project; interesting.

East to San Luis st park. another sign : Great Sand Dunes Nat Park.

Drive through desert. See several "Dirt Devils" ... Cyclone / Twister/ Funnels from sand.

San Luis Lake has a canal leading to irrigate far off ranches.

Snowcap Mtns on other side of Lake are Sangre de Cristo range. Stunningly beautiful in the desert.

Great Sand Dunes are at the bottom of range across Lakes.

San Luis Lake is not from Snowpack runoff down the mountain ridges... Snowpack Melt Sinks INTO mountain , then percolates down through Sangre de Cristo Mountain range /// through earth, then rises in bowl lake at the bottom of the range. Amazing.

Desert air is thin, cool. Wind 10 -12. Clear.























ITW 18

May

San Luis st pk, Colorado San Luis Valley

NOT the town of San Luis, Colorado ... that's 30 miles south of here.

Laveta pass ... break out into Plains / arid plain / desert.

Hwy 160 west straight roads down to Plains. sagebrush forever.

Ft Garland. Onto Alamosa. North on hwy 17. pass by a Solar collector plant / project; interesting.

East to San Luis st park. another sign : Great Sand Dunes Nat Park.

Drive through desert. See several "Dirt Devils" ... Cyclone / Twister/ Funnels from sand.

San Luis Lake has a canal leading to irrigate far off ranches.

Snowcap Mtns on other side of Lake are Sangre de Cristo range. Stunningly beautiful in the desert.

Great Sand Dunes are at the bottom of range across Lakes.

San Luis Lake is not from Snowpack runoff down the mountain ridges... Snowpack Melt Sinks INTO mountain , then percolates down through Sangre de Cristo Mountain range /// through earth, then rises in bowl lake at the bottom of the range. Amazing.

Desert air is thin, cool. Wind 10-12. Clear.




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