On March 31 I met my friend Dave from Santa Fe in Gallup, New Mexico, and we spent the next day exploring a small part of the BLM Bisti Wilderness Area. We hiked up Hunter Wash (behind the old Bisti Trading Post) early in the morning, then walked up Alamo Wash and camped a little over a mile up the wash from the parking area that night.

There are no marked trails here. The best way to see things is to hike up one of the washes and explore the side canyons. It's easy to get turned around without a map and compass or GPS, but remember that all the smaller washes feed into either Hunter or Alamo Wash (depending on where you start) and these run right back to the parking areas. Go early and stay late for the best light. You probably don't want to be there in really rainy or really hot weather. It would be nearly impossible to walk in these clay soils during and shortly after even a moderate rainfall.