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Growing up on the central coast of CA we would always ski in the Sierras or Tahoe in winter. Whenever we wanted to retire a pair of skis we would wait til summer. The Oceano dunes 5 miles away were the best place to go to give the skis one last hurrah. Became a family tradition.
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Where i grew up we also had dunes, can’t say we ever used skiis or boards on it because that’s not a typical thing you’d find in Latin America. But i have fond memories of running up a giant dune and then flinging oneself down it. Would love to do that again some day 
Cool, but I would not want to endure the road rash from a fall on that stuff in light clothing.
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We fell plenty of times but I can’t ever say we had any road rash from the sand.
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Wake me when they install the lift chair.
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I’m at a loss to understand how that oasis is permanently safe from the neighboring dunes, hundreds of feet in height, from encroaching upon and enveloping it. (There must be a reason, or there wouldn’t be settlements there in the first place.)
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We grew up skiing the great sand dunes national monument in Colorado. Here is Warren Miller footage of our group. We had to change our theme post 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpK96jQwsGs
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