Sand Mountain AKA Little Sahara - October 16th & 17th

We arrived at Little Sahara (Home of the infamous SAND MOUNTAIN) around 6PM and set up camp. Which, by now, we are obviously experts at.

We were happy to finally be among the Sand People and wondered what adventures Little Sahara had in store.

Considering we didn't have any Sand Vehicles or Friends With Sand Vehicles (*hint hint Bill hint hint*) it seemed likely the adventures would consist of drinking too much and getting really, really covered in sand. And pretty pictures!

(Behind the Scenes)

As night fell we ate chili and played with the extended shutter on my camera. Most of the pictures were a horrific disaster but a few turned out interesting.

We had heard that the Sand People screeched up and down Sand Mountain all night but in actuality they were mostly quiet by midnight or so.

The next morning we awoke! Hungover and mildly dirty. We had a mountain to climb.

The view got pretty as soon as we left camp level. We read that Easter weekend in particular is extremely hopping and there can be upwards of 50,000 people here. Seems impossible and very dangerous. It's definitely the latter, serious accidents are a regular occurrence. When we drove in the sign said "2 Days Since The Last Serious Accident." Maybe I'm happy to be Mountain People instead of Sand People...

DuneMan.

(Behind the scenes.)

It was a very overcast day but as we got closer to the top the sun started poking through which added a nice shadow to everything.

And we could finally see over to the other side!

A little bit further and we were at the top! We hung out and took a couple of pictures and enjoyed the view and freedom.

The entire way up we were anticipating how fun the way down would be.

And it was!

Again breaking my own personal land speed record.

This photoshoot just goes on and on.

Icing on the cake: we saw a Juggalo Dune Buggy.

We had loved every second of Sand Mountain but unfortunately Mother Earth was fixin' to dump rain on us and we didn't want to wait around to get all of our gear covered in mud. With happy hearts we departed, sure to return in better weather.

BONUS ROUND - LOOK AT THESE BIG ASS BIRDS

Okay bye.