Hike Alkali Flat White Sands National Monument, NM

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This report is from before I put more time into writing and taking route photos, so it may not be very helpful. I'm keeping it up for the memories, and will one day hopefully return to better document. Find other reports in this region.

White Sands National Monument located near Lincoln National Forest, is a vast, white sun reflector where sunglasses aren't enough to make you stop squinting. It's a surreal experience to be be amongst these white dunes that serve as a foreground for hazy, purple mountains with nobody around. Listening to the wind whistle and feeling the prickles of hot sand hitting my legs and back as gusts blow it all over the place reminds me that there is no life nearby aside from a few puny, poor bushes sticking out of the sand.

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