Red Desert S/W Wyoming June/July 2014

It is over one hundred degrees and dry today as I walk through part of the high desert (over 6000 feet).

Up here even the hunters can fall prey to the high deserts of the southwest as you can see below.

 As you can see from these photos the desert is both beautiful and harsh if you go unprepared.  Whenever I go for a walk here I carry water in my backpack.  Since I need oxygen (Medical) at this elevation over 6000 feet I carry a small portable bottle in my backpack as well.

The red desert in S/W Wyoming is the second largest shifting sand desert in the world.  The pure sand starts about 20 miles away from here.