Hiking to High Dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- We visited our 19th US National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and had a blast climbing up to the top of High Dune and running down it. While the day did not go 100% according to plan, we finished our day with tacos and s'mores at the van, so it doesn't get much better than that!
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Awesome!!! This is also gonna be my 19th National Park come November. Great video!!!
Great vlog! Glad you guys are back! Thanks for bringing joy to my day😀
Aw yay! We’re so glad! That makes us smile big time 🤗
Just wanted to say I absolutely love your channel! So many great details!
We are so glad to hear that! Thank you so much! 💗
The GSDNP is one of my favorite places to fly kites ever. I may be moving down to Alamosa soon!
Yummy Reese’s S’mores! You deserved those after that hike up the dunes...WOW what a great leg and cardio workout!!! Really enjoyed watching your fun personalities!
I don’t think we can ever go back to regular s’mores! 😋 Great reward for that sandy hike!
You two crazy youngsters! Just the thought of walking through sand ( add hills to that mix ) makes my glutes scream 😲😂
Hahahaha we had major glute pains! That was the hardest workout we have had in a while 💪🏼
marshmallow poll - first you make sure to warm up the mallow then you let it catch fire but quickly blow it out. Then you pull the toasted outside layer off, consume then you reapply what's left of the mallow to the fire and repeat.
oh interesting, never heard of this approach!
I’m such a pyro and grew up in Hawaii making bon fires all the time. I used to do this lol! 😂 so good. Now I’m concerned about carcinogens but it tasted amazing!
Glad you are back and having fun
Venice flooded last night and the water receded today
We saw that this morning! 😳😳😳 So crazy! We hope everyone is ok 😔
Great video! Starting to watch more of you guys than K and N. =)
Thank you so much for watching! 🤗🤗
It’s awesome. Sometimes I am jealous you. Because I think you live your life you wanna do!
We try to follow our dreams everyday, but it’s definitely challenging at times and not always fun or glamorous!
I visited the park in June of this year. An update for you is that the road to Zapata falls is now paved. The parking lot is still gravel but getting up there is much easier now!
Sweet! We’ll check it out next time!
ok friends, couple of things. 1) yours is the second video I've seen recently about the sand dunes, never heard of them before. so we're going to have to put that on our list. 2) so glad to see you do smores correctly!!! They are the BEST with a reese's cup. No other way to do it! And as a bonus, 3) we are big fans of taco tuesday in our house... so good job there too! love the green sauce!
The dunes are sooo fun! Next time we want to go to the highest one! And I am glad we aren't the only ones who think smores are better with Reeses...so dang good!!! That green sauce is super tasty, we eat it daily!
Burnt mallows for the win!!
This is an oldie but a goodie! The Reese's smores is such a genius idea, my mouth was gaping from never having thought of it myself. I have to try it soon! I personally like my smores with a lightly browned (not burnt) marshmallow.
Reese’s s’mores are the best! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Another great video!
Thank you so much! We had a really fun day!
Fun video! Dunes are VERY deceiving. Where I live in Northern Michigan we are surrounded by dunes. They are super fun. Instead of mountains our dune views are Lake Michigan! I am a burnt marshmallow kind of girl! Looking forward to the next adventure! xo
They are so deceiving, but so much fun! I went to Indiana Sand Dunes as a kid (before it was a national park) and we cannot wait to go back together and run around those and then get into very cold Lake Michigan! Haha
And burnt marshmallows gals unite! 🙌🏼🔥
Chunky and toasted😁. A thumbs up video 👍
Lol, love it!!! 🔥
I can't wait to start my National Park journey. i was planning to go to Death Valley this weekend but it got canceled. I will have to set something up for later.
Aw man! We still haven’t been to Death Valley, but we hear it’s really cool. We hope you can do something else fun instead!
Amazing vid!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it! 😃
I am with Adam on salsa and marshmallows. The Great Sand Dunes are awesome. I am not currently able to hike very much but I still loved just seeing them last fall.
It's a great spot to visit whether you can hike or not!
Brings back memories, wife and I visited this park Sept 2021 and were fortunate enough to hike Zapata falls. As stated in your vlog road path to the falls was very rocky as was the hike path to the falls. Hope you get a chance visit Zapata falls someday!
We need to get back there to see that one. The road was too much to handle for our van! Thanks!
Awesome video the sand dunes are really cool! Not really a marshmallow fan lol
I thought I wasn’t either, but then I couldn’t stop eating them lol! 🤣
Walking on the sand at the dunes is hard!
Sooo hard! Much harder than it looks haha!
I gotta go with Burnt marshmallows. And I don't like peanut butter so for me, I always try to make smores with Carmellos or some other delicious sea salt chocolate with Carmel inside. The dunes look great and have been wanting to take the kids there forever. We just did Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan recently and they absolutely loved that so I know they'd get a kick out of all the ones there.
oh my gosh something with caramel sounds SO GOOD! And we can't wait to do Sleeping Bear Dunes!
And is 2 hours enough for a bunch of fun
this is a pretty cool video. normally these kind of vlogs are really cringey but this was actually informative. got inspired to check this out coz Joe Rogan and Wiz Khalifa were talking about people hiking up sand dunes for exorcise. JRE #1306
Hahaha we are glad it wasn’t cringey! 🤣🙌🏼 We try to make our vlogs as informative as we can. And we will have to listen to that episode of Joe Rogan-Adam is a big fan of his podcast!
forever team juicy salsa!!
Yesssss! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Why have I never thought about using Reese’s cups🤦🏼♀️
Sand Dunes! 👍
So much fun! But very hard lol!
@@AdventuresofAplusK hence the good food after a hard days work 🍽😁
Yes! We deserved those tacos and s'mores!
I’m so sad. I can’t get their corn tortillas here in Daytona. The stores sell their flour ones but won’t order the corn for me and we’re gluten free. So I’m jealous!
Oh no! The corn ones are the best! They can be kind of hard to find though.
How's that thin air working for you ;) dont forget your snowboard next time for coming down!
Oof the elevation definitely gets to us! And we will do some practicing so next time we can sandboard!
I just did a trip to a bunch of national parks. Have Not made there yet. I will though
It’s a fun one! And pretty close to a couple others in CO too! Where all did you go?
@@AdventuresofAplusK we started in Fresno and headed to red rock canyon, then we went to bryce canyon, Capitol reef, city of rocks, craters of the moon, Yellowstone, glacier, then up to banff national park in Canada. One of the guys had to get home so we missed the west coast with the exception of a few. I don't count them though because it was not a long visit.
Do you guys have an instagram to follow?
Ah nice, what an epic trip!!! We haven’t been to all of those yet, but the ones we have we absolutely loved.
And we are @adventuresofaplusk on Instagram!
Burnt marshmallow! Is there any other way?
Exactly!!!
Awesome video!! Can I ask which camera did you use to film this, awesome quality!
Thank you so much! This was filmed with a Sony A6500! We have all of our gear listed here if you want to see anything else! adventuresofaplusk.com/resources/
That was interesting 👍 how did all that sand get there ? It’s not near the ocean is it ? , the tacos looked delish by the way 👌
Not near an ocean! I meant to research how it came to be beforehand, but then totally forgot, but a quick summary is:
“Streams and creeks flowing out of the San Juan Mountains over millennia carried gravel and sand into shallow lakes in the San Luis Valley. During drought periods, these lakes dried, releasing the sand particles to the action of the wind. Strong prevailing southwesterly winds carry the tiny grains toward the Sangre de Cristos, piling them up against the foothills” There is more to it than that, but I wasn’t sure if I could fit everything in one comment!
If you haven’t left the area yet the hike to Zapata Falls is worth it
We unfortunately couldn’t make it down the rough road in the van 😔 We really wanted to though!
Adventures of A plus K doh, I should’ve watched the whole video first. Just for anyone’s future reference you can park at the bottom and walk up, it’s only 3 miles. From the top of the road there’s beautiful views of the dunes and the surrounding 14ers.
Haha that’s ok! And we saw a car parked and assumed they walked the road. If we had more daylight we would’ve done that because the waterfall looks super cool!
Eating one taco vs his two even though you know you had more. Lol.
Lol I 100% had 5! 🤣
you had me at tacos until the peppers.... Now different story if they were hot peppers lol...
That's okay, not everyone has to like the A+K special!
You will have to go back. There's dust (or sand) on the sensor😉
Yeahhh we clean it like crazy and it still keeps happening 😔
@@AdventuresofAplusK still a great video. Didn't knew this park. Another reason to go back to the US
Thank you! And Colorado is full of so many cool spots! We have barely scratched the surface and can’t wait to come back and explore more 😄
Yummmm tacos.
S’mores.......no 🍧??🤷♀️
Haha not this time! Gotta have some variety to keep y’all on your toes 😉
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Is there any else other than the High dunes in this park ?
Yes, depending on your vehicle and what you're up for. The NPS website has some more suggestions: www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/things-to-do.htm
@@AdventuresofAplusK I just have a 2 wheel drive. And I just want to spend a day there.
How does Kona like his marshmallows?
Whichever kind we accidentally drop on the ground 🤣🤣
you missed out on the best thing. Sandboarding.
Toasty mallow
Do you have to pay to get in?
Check their website for the admission fee and 2 hours should be enough time to have a great time!
www.nps.gov/whsa/planyourvisit/fees.htm
hi, can you tell me if i need to pay for the place to camp? can I sleep in my car? where can I get a pass? thsnks for the vlog saludos desde Mexico
Hi! We camped for free on public land outside of the park. We liked this spot: www.campendium.com/old-spanish-trail. You can sleep in a vehicle, RV, or tent there. No pass required, but you’ll need to pay the enter the park! 😄
Adventures of A plus K thank you so much!!!!!!! ❤️❤️
Of course!