The following post is about my recent hike at the Bisti Badlands, New Mexico, and the photographs I captured during the trip. All photos were taken with a wide angle lens (Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS). Select photos have been added to Southwest Scenery album. Bisti Badlands The Bisti Wilderness Area (Bisti) is located in San Juan county, which is in the north-western region of New Mexico . It is currently under BLM (Bureau of Land Management) control, neighboring private Navajo lands. The area is accessed by NM State Hwy 371, which runs in between Farmington and Thoreau (Intersecting with I-40). Living so many years in and around New Mexico, I never visited the Bisti Badlands. In my mind it was always somewhere far or, according to the different reviews and hiking guides, it simply wasn’t the right time of the year to go there – too rainy, too muddy, too hot, too cold, too windy, etc. It was also never in the area of my usual travel routes. Read More
Very Large Array (VLA), located off US Route 60, close to Magdalena , NM, is widely-used radio telescope in the world. It is part of National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). VLA project was approved by Congress in 1972, and the construction began a year later. I try to visit VLA at least once a year. It is about 50 miles West of Socorro, NM, on US Route 60. The drive itself is entertaining, and somehow scenic, with the Magdalena Mountains on the west side and deserted landscape on the east of the road. The photos in this post are from October 2015. Read More
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