This morning Trish made another tasty breakfast:

We headed out for another hike in the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, this time looking for the hoodoo known as “King of Wings”. It was very windy and cold:

We spotted a few wild horses:

After a bit we reached the badlands:







The hoodoo group that contains King of Wings:


The King of Wings. This hoodoo supports a dramatically overhanging capstone:



Photographing it from below yielded some dramatic photographs:






At least this fellow died in a scenic area:



We continued on to search for the structure called “Space Spoon”:


The Space Spoon from a number of angles:




The vast emptiness of the American West never ceases to amaze me, and I treasure the solitude it provides:



Selfie time:






The rolling badlands create abstract patterns:

So many colors:

More horses:

A windmill on the way back:

We also saw this wild horse along the road:


We hitched up the RV and drove north to the Angel Peak Scenic Area, a designation well deserved:


Angel Peak:



I had hoped to find a dispersed camping location from which I could fly along the canyon rim, but we were unsuccessful, so we overnighted at a nearby gas station. See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.
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fantastic pictures. need to return to new mexico soon. thanks for sharing