White Sands National Monument
Posted by: chstress53
N 32° 46.659 W 106° 10.296
13S E 390277 N 3627245
This Ansel Adams photo is of the largest pure gypsum dune field in the world it is located at White Sands National Monument in south-central New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WM8TM
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2006
Views: 174
This region of glistening white dunes is in the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert within an "internally drained valley" called the Tularosa Basin. The monument ranges in elevation from 3890' to 4116' above sea level. There are approximately 275 total square miles of dune fields here, with 115 square miles (about 40%) located within White Sands National Monument.
It has been very, very difficult to say exactly where he stood on this particular shot. I was in the park for a while recently and thought I had a pretty good photo; but they do not do justice to where he was actually standing. The park people sent me down the trails but I am sure the scenery has changed much since his original photo plus I am not in his league( That and the fact that sand blows around over time) I challenge someone to come up with a better estimate and a better matching photo! If'n you do I will happily archive my waymark and open the space so that the better photo is the waymark, and I would gladly log a find .
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