Sunday, September 11, 2016

Another Day at the Bisti Wilderness

We hiked out into the Bisti Wilderness again today, hoping to see more of the named formations. We did find a few of the famous ones, and we were impressed by many other hoodoos and formations. We were out hiking for four hours, so when we got back to the truck, we were hot and tired. Good thing we had air conditioning and lunch in a cooler!

There is always more to see in a place like Bisti. People keep coming back here, drawn by the strange formations and alien seeming landscape. In the sign-in book at the parking lot, the two parties who signed in before us were from Croatia and Denmark. Some people don't sign in and out, so it's hard to tell how many people hike around here, but we encountered three other groups out today.

On a mound of reddish "clinkers," clay metamorphosed by a coal fire that burned here for centuries

Siltstone caps on these formations are a rich reddish brown.

One of the famous "cracked eggs"

More eggs....


Two windows formed by overhanging siltstone










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