Sauter said she often hikes in socks just so the “tops of my feet don’t get burned” from the hot sun. Quite a few. White Sands National Park has been the backdrop to several major movies ...

I know a lot of people who regularly go to White Sands for work trips (there’s a lot of military stuff that goes on there).

the second-largest gypsum dune field in the world, Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles). Hiking and sledding over this vast white expanse of powder is a singular, otherworldly experience ...