Hauns Go West

Tag: desert

  • Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO

    Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO

    Great Sand Dunes is our favorite. SinceOf the National Parks we’ve visited (which is a lot, but we’ve barely scratched the surface), our first visit in 2006, we’ve returned twice to camp and explore the fascinating, ever-changing dunes. The ecology of the place is so diverse that it makes for a wonderful educational experience, but […]

  • Great Sand Dunes at Dusk

    Great Sand Dunes at Dusk

    I posted the dunes in this National Monument at dawn, now here they are at sunset.

  • The Crest

    The Crest

    A series of black & white images from Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.

  • A Couple Random Utah Pics

    A Couple Random Utah Pics

    Took these between Capitol Reef National Park and Hanksville, Utah. We were just leaving the storms that had plagued us for the last three days.

  • Capitol Reef National Park, UT

    Capitol Reef National Park, UT

    After a full 24 hours of waiting out the rain in a motel we hit the road again. Our drive through Capitol Reef was rather uneventful due to the rain. We did stop to check out some insane flooding caused by the last 48 hours of rain. Trey cracked me up by asking why the […]

  • Climbing Joshua Tree’s Cap Rock

    Climbing Joshua Tree’s Cap Rock

    Here are some more photos from our time in Joshua Tree National Park. On this day we hiked around the Cap Rock area and Trey and I did some boulder climbing/scrambling up to the top. Click for a larger view of this panorama

  • Forty-Nine Palms Oasis

    Forty-Nine Palms Oasis

    On September 23rd, Heidi’s birthday, we decided to hike to the Forty Nine Palms Oasis, one of 5 Desert Fan Palm oases in Joshua Tree National Park. It was a 3.3 mile hike up and down the desert mountain side to a nicely shaded oasis. Interestingly, an oasis forms where the tectonic plates have shifted […]

  • Salt Flats in B/W

    Salt Flats in B/W

    A series of black & white images from salt flats between Joshua Tree Nat’l Park and the Mojave National Preserve

  • Salt Flats in Southern California

    Salt Flats in Southern California

    While driving from Joshua Tree National Park to the Mojave National Preserve, we passed an area that looked really interesting on Google Maps. I wasn’t sure what it was so I decided we would stop when we got there. It turned out to be salt flats – large reservoirs that are filled with salt water […]

  • Mojave Desert Lava Beds

    Mojave Desert Lava Beds

    In the northeast corner of the Mojave National Preserve you leave the vast Kelso Dunes and come across a low ridge of black lava rock that seems to stretch on forever (check it out on Google Maps). We parked and hiked about a mile to the edge of the lava beds. I was impressed that […]