High Dune - Great Sand Dunes NP, CO

High Dune is the high point of Great Sand Dunes National Park, located in southern Colorado, near the town of Alamosa, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, which include 14ers such as Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Challenger Point, Kit Carson Peak, Blanca Peak, Little Bear Peak, and Ellingwood Point.

[@christopherhaak9824]

Hiked this just a few days after doing a R2R of the GC. Would say that the uphill on the dune was much worse than the climb out of the GC for sure. You do have to stay on the ridges for a better climb, but depending on how things go, you get into sections where the back sliding is quite bad and to make reasonable progress, you have to run up before you slide back and that is taxing. Incredibly unique sights and view and it's like that just pop up out of nowhere.

[@HikingEngineer]

that's a bold statement! It wasn't as a bad as I was expecting, only about 600' climb