The day after Thanksgiving we packed up and departed the Navajo National Monument. The weather forecast was predicting quite a change in the weather, with a shift to snow and cold, so we scrapped our initial list of northern New Mexico sites to visit on this trip, and made a big move south. We stopped off for a quick break at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site which has been in operation since 1878.
After a restless night listening to the huskies bark and howl and Mancos State Park we were headed south to New Mexico. We scaled back our New Mexico plans dramatically due to closures, but in order to complete our circle of the southwest we did pass through the northwestern corner. One area on the list that we would be near was the Bisti/Di-Na-Zin wilderness. There are at least two main trailheads into the area and because of the short days we didn’t waste any time and went to the one closest to us, which I believe is generally described as the Di-Na-Zin side of the wilderness. While the Bisti side apparently features the hoodoos the area is famous for, the Di-Na-Zin side did not disappoint and it was a great place to wander for an afternoon.
