Wandering Words

We got hiking together again yesterday. We've been wanting to head out to the De-Na-Zin wilderness ever since we visited it's sister, the Bisti badlands, on the way back from our Utah trip last summer. We finally got there yesterday, and it was totally worth the trip. De-na-zin is much larger, and even more remote (12 miles on dirt roads off the highway rather then 3, with just a teeny-tiny sign letting you know where the one trailhead is). We were totally blown away be how amazing it is, though. The sheer variety of rocks colors and formations and shapes and sizes is just incredible. We saw oodlins of petrified wood laying all over the place, and a number of other fossils and cool minerals, too. We ended up hiking for almost 6 miles up and down hills and through arroyos. I was pretty glad I had the GPS with me, because it would have been awfully easy to get totally turned around otherwise. As it was, we all had a very fun time. Check out this little video of little guy dancing around in the desert: