White Water Rafting on the Arkansas River in May.  We drove from The Woodlands to Lake Meredith.  Camped there in the rain and wind, then drove the next day to Buena Vista.  Rafted for three days.  Drove to Great Sand Dunes Nat'l Mon., Camped there two nights, then drove back.  Piece of cake.

Group-Sand Dunes.jpg (331501 bytes) Group2-Sand Dunes.jpg (330458 bytes)The group at the Great (and they mean GREAT) Sand Dunes.

Lake Meredith1.jpg (353116 bytes) Lake Meredith2.jpg (358858 bytes) Lake Meredith3.jpg (330001 bytes) Camping at Lake Meredith.

More Sand Dunes Pictures

Bill & Winston-Dunes.jpg (330918 bytes) Billy Mutell-Mtns.jpg (336550 bytes) Boys-Medano Creek.jpg (346177 bytes) Boys-Sand Dunes.jpg (335254 bytes) Camp at Sand Dunes.jpg (362664 bytes) 
Dan & Andy-Mtns.jpg (341946 bytes)

Fred-Sand Dunes.jpg (310080 bytes) Notice the first foot above the sand contains quite a bit of airborne sand grains

Sand Dunes3.jpg (361527 bytes) Sand Dunes4.jpg (348036 bytes) The tallest dune is almost 900 feet high!

 Sand Surfers.jpg (345575 bytes) Winston flip.jpg (303873 bytes) You can play in the sand.

And a movie

Camping2001/Rafting/Dune rolling-movie.mpg