{"id":61,"date":"2007-07-01T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/sand-in-them-thar-hills\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:29:12","slug":"sand-in-them-thar-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Sand in Them Thar Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a blitz-trip to catch a bit of CEDAR\/DASI (Distributed Array of Small Instruments) in Santa Fe and collaborate with folks at NOAA\/ESRL (Earth Sciences Research Lab) in Boulder.  Thursday night to Monday night, but I still feel like I&#8217;m gone too long!  On the drive up from Santa Fe to Boulder, I stopped for some hiking at Great Sand Dunes National Park.  It is pretty amazing&#8211;I recommend it.  I only had the cell phone for some goofy self-portraits&#8211;sorry.  There was a decent thunderstorm kicking up in the mountains behind the dunes and at the visitor&#8217;s center they had some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fulgurite\">fulgurites<\/a> they&#8217;d found in the dunes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200706nmco\/imgs\/06-30-07_1701.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a blitz-trip to catch a bit of CEDAR\/DASI (Distributed Array of Small Instruments) in Santa Fe and collaborate with folks at NOAA\/ESRL (Earth Sciences Research Lab) in Boulder. Thursday night to Monday night, but I still feel like I&#8217;m gone too long! On the drive up from Santa Fe to Boulder, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sand in Them Thar Hills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matt","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}