MACS wrote:Walking in sand, unless you're barefoot, at the beach, and walking toward the water... sucks.
The trail we took has you walking up three dunes at about 200ft each. You walk up, enjoy the view and catch your breath, then stumble down trying not to break your ankles. Once the trail levels off, you climb another.
Several years ago we were over ambitious and took the longest trail on the map. 6-7 miles if I remember correctly. I figured it would take us about 2.5 hours and the map pamphlet said the trail was moderate difficulty. We usually try to hike all the rugged and very rugged trails when we go to the parks. So, moderate shouldn't be too bad. 2 hours into the hike I realized we weren't even halfway yet as we'd not yet crested the dunes back to the beach.
Then we had to walk 3 miles down the beach. In hindsight, we would've been better off turning around and hiking back through the woods the way we came. It took nearly 5 hours. It was hot and dry, so the sand was all super loose. Tried walking closer to the water where the sand was firmer but you still sank in. There was no solid ground to walk on.
https://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/files/dunes_trail.pdf