This weekend I went out to Bruneau Dunes State Park early on Saturday morning with a friend to practice up on a little photography.  If you're not familiar with Bruneau, it's an unusual place with very large sand dunes in southwestern Idaho.  Unfortunately, there was some cloud cover so we missed the sunrise opportunity.

The wind was howling and it was around freezing (w/o wind chill) so we wandered around and took a few close up shots.

After a couple of hours we got some patchy sunlight so I was able to get a few dunes shots.

Around 10:30 an extremely dark cloud came in from the northwest.  At first, this was awesome because we could get some contrast of the dunes against the sky.  The picture below doesn't really give justice to the weather.  I absolutely got sand blasted taking this picture.  I'm sure it was great on my camera and tripod!

After having the first couple of layers of my face grinded down by sand we headed back toward the car.  I got one last shot in which you see below.

About 10 seconds after I snapped this shot it was a complete blizzard.  Snow was coming in horizontally and the place was blanketed in less than 5 minutes.

What a wild trip!