Hello, my name is Peter Runden, and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Business School. I am taking this class due to my interest in nature and the things that make the world go round. I hope to finish the course with a better understanding of geographical concepts and maybe some fun facts to help me win trivial pursuit.
When asked not only to choose a location over the next four months but to also blog about it, many locations came to mind. Instead of choosing a place I have already been, I decided to choose a place, that interests me but have yet to visit. This left me with the Great Sand Dunes National Park, which contains many different systems ranging from vast mountains, rift valleys, and of course sand dunes themselves. With all these systems working together many questions can be asked and hopefully answered. The above image shows just one of the many beautiful images created by the intertwined systems. Over the next semester I hope to provide information, which answers those questions, and finishing it all with a trip of my own to the location.
