Rio Puerco badlands, distant Cabezon

some of the wildest country yet encountered, and just over the other side of the Jemez/Nacimiento from Los Alamos. Beautiful sandstone canyons and mesas, petrified wood, pottery shards, the works. Hardly saw anyone out there, either, except for a couple Navajos gather herbs, a forest service biologist, and 3 drunk kids in a new Toyota truck.

slow going on muddy Mesa Chivato

snowy travels near Mt. Taylor

campsite on the rim of El Malpais

ancient handprints

Pie Town post office resupply

Anastasia and Beth crossing the Middle Fork of the Gila