Appetizer Chaco

“Much of Northwest New Mexico is a landscape of oblivion, an arid sink, bowing into the Colorado plateau. Ochre and straw-colored washes loop in and out for hundreds of miles, many seeing running water for no more than a day or two each year. In some place dusty sagebrush steppes extend as far as the eye can see, and in others scabs of badlands lie naked under the sun, completely devoid of vegetation. Occasional black monoliths are visible in the distance, wind-struck jags of rock standing several hundred feet tall like lost chess pieces. Chaco Canyon lieshere,in a basin a hundred miles across.” (14)

Location:Chaco