AlanLichty
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Normally when you think of trails leading into sand dunes a mental image of dry deserts with large piles of bare sand comes to mind. Unless of course you are along the Oregon coast where 100+ inches of rain per year is normal.
I went out one morning while camped near the Umpqua Lighthouse to shoot a small lake with hopes of still water and rising steam and got a strong offshore breeze with choppy waters instead. I saw fork in the trail with a sign saying the lake loop was one direction and dunes were in the other so I decided to go shoot the dunes instead. The trail leads through an area where forest has taken over but this is in fact part of the dune fields and you look around carefully there is not a single stone in sight other than gravel the parks folks have spread along the trails. The sand here is 30-40 feet deep from exposed escarpments I was able to examine. The dunes at the end of the trail were entirely covered with ATV tracks and not photogenic at all.
C&C always welcome.
I went out one morning while camped near the Umpqua Lighthouse to shoot a small lake with hopes of still water and rising steam and got a strong offshore breeze with choppy waters instead. I saw fork in the trail with a sign saying the lake loop was one direction and dunes were in the other so I decided to go shoot the dunes instead. The trail leads through an area where forest has taken over but this is in fact part of the dune fields and you look around carefully there is not a single stone in sight other than gravel the parks folks have spread along the trails. The sand here is 30-40 feet deep from exposed escarpments I was able to examine. The dunes at the end of the trail were entirely covered with ATV tracks and not photogenic at all.
C&C always welcome.
