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The GazetteDecember 1, 2015 | updated 11 years ago
Sink into the highest sand dunes in North America at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Gazette File Photo)
Sink into the highest sand dunes in North America at Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Gazette File Photo)A mountain biker races through the rolling turns on Joe’s Ridge Sunday, March 31, 2013, in the Bookcliffs/18 Road area north of Fruita. Colo. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) (CHRISTIAN MURDOCK)Jambo, one of four African Elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, plays in deep sand in the zoo’s new “Encounter Africa” exhibit Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette (MARK REIS, THE GAZETTE)Snow flies as baby Great Horned Owls peer from their nest in the Mountain Shadows area Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette (MARK REIS, THE GAZETTE)A rainbow hangs in the evening sky above downtown Colorado Springs Saturday, July 6, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette (MARK REIS, THE GAZETTE)Three baby flammulated owls sit on the leg of Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project researcher Ross Calhoun as he prepares to weigh them in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013. Project leader and CC professor Brian Linkhart has been working with the flammulated owl for the past 33 years in an attempt to better understand the threatened species. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette (Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette)Members of the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division provide cover as a Chinook helicopter takes off from the landing zone after dropping the platoon off at Outpost Stevens while training for deployment during the Mountain Strike field training exercises at Fort Carson Monday, August 19, 2013. The training is designed to give new troops their first taste of a battle zone and keep veterans on their toes as the brigade prepares to deploy to Afghanistan next Spring. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette (Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette)Dave Jackson closes a mailbox with his foot after delivering the mail to a home surrounded on three sides by a flooded Cheyenne Creek Friday, September 13, 2013. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette (Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette)The turning aspens near Gothic, Colo., frame a snow-dusted Mt. Crested Butte Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) (CHRISTIAN MURDOCK)Fallen aspen leaves lie on the frozen ground on Kebler Pass west of Crested Butte Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) (CHRISTIAN MURDOCK)Canada Geese take off from the surface of Prospect Lake at sunset Monday, December 2, 2013. Bitter cold and snow expected for our region on Wednesday might convince the geese to move on. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette (MARK REIS)
