WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Sand as white as new fallen snow
Some of the critters living here
OK-lets climb one-look for an easy climb
not straight up!
Ready
The sand is really cool
(both ways)
This is higher than we thought!
MADE IT to the top!
Well....one of us without being on all fours!
View on top-sand all the way to the mountains
Kids sledding down the dunes
They plow the drifting, blowing sands daily
That's the dune we climbed to the right
Adobe Visitor Center built in the 30's by WPA
Karen Lovin' the sand
After lunch ate at a local Mexican restaurant: then we
drove up the Sacramento Mountains to Cloudcroft, NM
In 1898, They built a railroad, from Alamogordo to
Cloudcroft, 26 miles up the mountain
to harvest the forests of Douglas Fir.
The Mexican Trestle
Passenger service ended in 1938 and the last
freight train ran in 1947.
Cloudcroft
View from the mountain with the White Sands
stretching across the valley
Quaint Church
The Lodge
Famous guests stayed here, Judy Garland,
Clark Gable and Pancho Villa. The Lodge was
managed by Conrad Hilton
The view coming down the mountain
Oliver Lee State Park
Little spots in background are campers
Our campsite with the White Sands
in the background. Planted like a desert garden
Wow-what a view!
Up on the edge of a Mountain
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