These are some pics from March 04 and March 06 trips out to the Juniper Dunes Wilderness in Central Washington. The weather both times was warm and sunny with a bit of haze. While Washington has sand, albeit in the form of wet beaches along the Pacific Ocean, as well as its fair share of shrub steppe desert in the Columbia Basin area, this is one of the few locations where you find both sand and desert together in the Evergreen state. The dunes aren't really what you would call spectacular, they are fairly modest in size and mixed in with varying amounts of light vegetation as well as some steppe desert in addition to the namesake Western Junipers. Nevertheless, it's still much different visually than the scenery of even your prototypical Central Washington desert hike. The most enjoyable part of the dunes in terms of photography is the patterns of shape they take and the animal tracks that traverse the dunes: