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- Cima Store is open today, so I stop for a bag of chips and a bottle of blogger Morongo Bill's esteemed Sioux City Sarsaparilla
- Cima Road rises up to a bridge that crosses over Interstate 15 and I stop at the gas station store here to fuel up on supplies
- Cima Dome / Teutonia Peak hike route as viewed in Google Earth
- Cholla cactus along the old Coyote Springs Road
- Cholla cactus
- Cholla cacti and barrel cacti pick up the late-afternoon sun while I walk across this area above Cave Spring
- China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.
- China Hole Trail rises quickly out of the canyon.
- China Hole Trail pops out of the shady area and winds its way across an open meadow on the way down into the canyon.
- China Hole Trail passes through a lot of chamise again before entering another manzanita-dominated area
- China Hole Trail passes briefly through a stand of manzanitas
- China Hole Trail levels out a bit and is easier riding for a while.
- China Hole Trail exits the oak woodland on the crest and begins winding its way downhill across grassland
- China Hole Trail enters into a tunnel of manzanitas.
- China Hole Trail ends when it reaches Manzanita Point Road.
- China Hole Trail drops down 700 feet into the canyon over two miles of nice single-track
- China Hole campsite this morning.
- China Hole at sunset, looking northeast toward The Narrows.
- Chilopsis linearis flowers in close-up
- Chicken Water Spring, to my surprise, drips into this shiny, new steel basin
- Chicken Water Spring Road is quite indistinct here and doesn't look like it has been driven often in recent years
- Chicken Water Spring is off to my right, but I decide to walk straight ahead for a short loop around this end of the valley
- Chalkboard?
- Centuries of erosion have created this drainage canyon through the south end of Broadwell Mesa in the Kelso Dunes Wilderness
- Cedar Canyon Road's famous "pavement ends" sign
- Cedar Canyon Road's famous "pavement ends" sign, Mojave National Preserve
- Cedar Canyon Road turns and heads briefly north toward Pinto Mountain before resuming its westward trek
- Cedar Canyon Road rises through a healthy joshua tree forest, with Cima Dome still in the background when I look behind me
- Cedar Canyon Road junction, another much-needed break, at 3725 feet on Kelso-Cima Road
- Cedar Canyon Road is scenic, but I'm always so happy when I reach the junction of Black Canyon Road at 5000 feet
- Cedar Canyon Road is now visible: that horizontal line down below
- Cedar Canyon Road east of the Mid Hills is mostly unpaved, except for this short stretch by a cattle guard
- Cedar Canyon Road dips down into Cedar Wash for a couple of miles
- Cedar Canyon Road crosses the historic Old Mojave Road
- Cedar Canyon Road crosses a cattle guard and offers a detour for those not wishing to cross the cattle guard
- Cedar Canyon Road bends again and heads toward Pinto Mountain for a few minutes
- Ceanothus along Red Creek Road on Paradise Flat.
- Cave Spring rock igloos
- Cave Spring igloos
- Cattle-guard on Nipton Road at I-15
- Cattle pond near Wagon Road
- Catching the last hot-red rays of sunset as I walk down Rex Mine Road, with the Providence Mountains behind me
- Catching some shade on Bear Spring Road (much of the road is exposed to the sun and not shady at all).
- Castle Peaks Road heads across the land toward a slot between the rolling hills at upper-left
- Castle Peaks Road ends after 30 minutes; I start riding the Barnwell-Searchlight railway grade and find this stray balloon
- Castle Peaks Road beyond the dry reservoir continues to deteriorate
- Canteen Trail keeps heading upward.
- Canteen Spring is full but not flowing.
- Can dump at the mine site at the end of the middle fork of Globe Mine Road
- Campground Peaks hiking route elevation profile
- Campground Peaks hiking route (in blue)
- Camp slowly gets packed up, and I lazily leave my Pine Spring campsite around 11h30
- Camp is set up near Indian Springs!
- Camouflaged in the rocks is a small concrete dam to retain water running down from the hills
- Camille's Fish n Chips, Barrington Street, Halifax, 1984
- Cady Peak, behind my hat, is not all that far away, but I'm not really on the route up to the peak
- Cady Mountains hike elevation profile
- Cactus-flower close-up, next to Wee Thump Wilderness, Nevada
- Cactus buddies
- Cactus
- Cactus
- Cacti and a few blue phacelia flowers enjoy the shade under this pinyon pine in the McCullough Mountains
- By 9h, the contents of my campsite on Cornfield Spring Road has been decisively packed into my bloated saddlebags
- By 9h, it's too hot in the tent, and I have no choice but to get up and start today's hike to Keystone Spring
- Butterfly
- Butterflies like this moist sand along the edge of the drying-up creek bed
- Butcher Knife Canyon hike as viewed in Google Earth
- But first, I'll stop to finish off this last delicious piece of orange-flavored chocolate
- Bushwhacking my way through more reeds
- Burro trails
- Burned joshua trees are scattered across this plain, but fragments of the old juniper forest survived the 2005 brush fires
- Burned joshua tree near Butcher Knife Canyon, Mojave National Preserve
- Burned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National Preserve
- Burned conifers, Stanislaus National Forest, 2020
- Burned brush, Henry Coe State Park
- Bumpy, bumpy, slowly uphill pedaling on the upper part of Black Canyon Road
- Bummer, no Chinese breakfast on the menu (who would order such "weird stuff"?), so I order scrambled eggs and bacon
- Bull Canyon winds around another interesting bend
- Bull Canyon widens a little after passing through the narrows
- Bull Canyon hike route from campsite on Kelso Dunes power-line road
- Bulb
- Buildings at Rock Tank, Aiken Mine Road, Mojave National Preserve
- Bugs abound at Keystone Spring, as happy to have water as I am
- Buddha Rock, Mojave National Preserve
- Buckwheats are still flowering along this stretch of Ivanpah Road
- Buckwheat, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
- Buckwheat flowers pop out between dark rocks that absorb the hot sun in Saddle Horse Canyon
- Bubbles in the rocks
- Brrr! It's really cold up here at Mid Hills campground tonight
- Broadwell Natural Arch South
- Broadwell Natural Arch North
- Brilliant Indian Paintbrush never fails to get one's attention!
- Bright-red Indian paintbrush near the bottom of Juniper Spring wash
- Bright, sunny morning, cool breeze, perfect for the hike that I've planned up the adjacent Sleeping Beauty hills
- Bright sunshine at the bottom of the Lava Tube ladder
- Bright sunshine and a bit of smoke in the air as I look down toward "The Racetrack" in Death Valley National Park
- Bright sun warms up this cold November morning at Hole-in-the-Wall Campground, Mojave National Preserve
- Bright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto Mountain
- Breezes keep the tent somewhat cool after the hot sun wakes me at 7h30, then I ride over to Hole-in-the-Wall Visitor Centre
- Breaking camp on the final morning of a trip produces mixed emotions
- Breaking camp and packing up
- Breakfast this morning is a hot meal, not my usual routine of granola, dried fruit and nuts
- Breakfast in Searchlight means McDonald's again (ugh); I admire the old Colton Mine headframe on the way back to my motel room
- Breakfast at Emigrant Campground
- Break time! A Clif bar, and more water, which is already rather warm
- Break time on the lower-middle section of Willow Ridge Trail!
- Brant Road hugs the train track as it curves to follow the route toward Cima, Mojave National Preserve
- Brant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridge
- Bovines along Wild Horse Canyon Road
- Boulders strewn about in Piute Canyon
- Boulders frame this view over to Hackberry Mountain from the south flank of Table Mountain
- Boulder with heavy-duty wire tied around it
- Boulder glow
- Borrego Canyon splits into a north and south fork; I choose to follow the south fork
- Borrego Canyon is quite rocky, making for slow hiking, as I thought might be the case
- Borrego Canyon is quite pristine, except for the cow grazing and this fresh roll of barbed wire
- Borrego Canyon hiking: climb over the rocks
- Borrego Canyon hike route, Mojave National Preserve, elevation profile
- Borrego Canyon hike route, Mojave National Preserve
- Bones in wash near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National Preserve
- Bone scatter
- Bolder Spring hike route viewed in Google Earth
- Board Spring Road veers off County Line Road into the brush in the middle of the photo on a slight downhill along the edge of the mountain.
- Bluish turquoise glass
- Bluejay Mine Road, Mojave National Preserve
- Bluejay Mine Road snakes around below Wild Horse Mesa
- Bluejay Mine Road rises out of the wash, sort of, but is really bumpy, and a bit uphill, so I'm now walking more than riding
- Bluejay Mine Road improves as it rolls downward, a most excellent mountain-biking road
- Bluejay Mine Road gets a bit better after rising out of the sandy wash
- Bluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind me
- Bluejay Mine Road ends here, so I stash my bike in the brush, lock it up, and begin today's hike
- Bluejay Mine Road appears to my right about six miles from Mid Hills campsite 22, at about 4740 feet elevation
- Blue Ridge, Henry Coe State Park
- Blue Ridge, Henry Coe State Park
- Blue Jay Mine Road is slightly downhill during most of its 1.7 miles back to Wild Horse Canyon Road
- Blue flowers in the Bolder Spring wash
- Blue dicks
- Blue delphiniums (Delphinium parishii) flowering near some yellowish hopsage (Grayia spinosa)
- Blooming daturas decorate the train tracks along Kelso-Cima Road
- Bladderpod (Isomeris arborea) flowering and fruiting on the hillside behind my tent near Indian Springs
- Black rocks that look like giant charcoal briquets
- Black Diamond Spring hike from Barnett Mine, Mojave National Preserve
- Black Canyon Road's grade here ranges from three to seven per cent, with a bit of loose sand on a hard washboard surface
- Black Canyon Road winds through the Colton Hills as it approaches Essex Road
- Black Canyon Road rises up from Cedar Canyon Road toward the Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve
- Black Canyon Road is often straight, but it meanders when passing through Black Canyon
- Black Canyon Road flattens out as it crosses Round Valley, Mojave National Preserve
- Black Canyon Road climbs up above the wash while passing through the canyon
- Black Canyon Road climbs slowly the next eight miles toward Mid Hills Campground
- Bla, I can't ride through this deep kitty litter, it's getting dark, and I'm not down at Devil's Playground yet
- Birds use these two cavelets high up in the rock wall, and one of them is occupied by a nest
- Bird residence
- Bird droppings on rocks above the natural tank suggest that ledges up there might be used as nests
- Bird
- Bill's dog keeps me company while he prepares our meals
- Bike standing on the edge of County Line Road at the trailhead of the Hartman Trail (closed to bikes)
- Bighorn-sheep-head rock?
- Bighorn sheep pieces
- Bighorn Basin Mine hike as viewed in Google Earth (5.25 miles)
- Bigger sandy drainages cross Jackass Canyon Road on the way down
- Bigelow's monkeyflowers and pine cones
- Big rigs park at the Ludlow gas station with the Sleeping Beauty mountains as a sunset backdrop
- Big pine cones litter the trail near Bear Spring.
- Big manzanita along the trail.
- Big grasses in the dry creek bed at China Hole, looking southwest down the canyon.
- Big boulders in Piute Canyon
- Big ant hill at the mouth of my chosen canyon in the Cady Mountains with a nice view of Broadwell Dry Lake
- Bicycle route: Mail Spring to Mid Hills Campground via New York Mountains Road
- Bicycle route: Mail Spring to Mid Hills Campground via New York Mountains Road
- Bicycle route: Button Mountain to Baker via Aiken Mine and Lava Tube, Mojave National Preserve (Day 16)
- Bicycle route to Castle Peaks, Mojave National Preserve from Searchlight, Nevada
- Bicycle route profile: Button Mountain to Baker via Aiken Mine and Lava Tube, Mojave National Preserve (Day 16)
- Bicycle route from Twin Buttes campsite to Nipton via Cima: Day 15
- Bicycle route from Primm, Nevada to Pine Spring area, McCullough Mountains, Nevada
- Bicycle route from Pine Spring, McCullough Mountains to Searchlight
- Bicycle route from Pachalka Spring to Button Mountain, via Aiken Mine Road, Mojave National Preserve (Day 15)
- Bicycle route from Nipton to Brant Hills
- Bicycle route from my Cornfield Spring Road campsite to Mid Hills campground, via Kelso-Cima Road (Day 3)
- Bicycle route from Mid Hills Campground to Twin Buttes area
- Bicycle route from Mid Hills Campground to Pinto Valley, Mojave National Preserve
- Bicycle route from Mid Hills campground to Nipton via Cima and Morning Star Mine Road (Day 9)
- Bicycle route from Mid Hills campground to Nipton via Cima and Morning Star Mine Road
- Bicycle route from Mid Hills campground to Howe Spring (Day 6)
- Bicycle route from Ludlow to Bristol Mountains campsite
- Bicycle route from Kelso Dunes area to Baker via Kelbaker Road
- Bicycle route from Devil's Playground to Cornfield Spring Road via Jackass Canyon and Kelso Depot
- Bicycle route from Cima Dome (Sunrise Rock) to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve (Day 12)
- Bicycle route from Castle Peaks campsite to Mid Hills campground via Cedar Canyon Road
- Bicycle route from Bristol Mountains to Broadwell Dry Lake campsite via Ludlow
- Bicycle route from Brant Hills to Baker via old Mojave Road, Mojave National Preserve
- Bicycle route from Baker to Devil's Playground campsite northwest of Old Dad Mountain
- Bicycle route elevation profile from Mid Hills campground to Blue Jay Mine via Wild Horse Canyon Road, Mojave National Preserve
- Bicycle route elevation from Cady Mountains to Barstow via Route 66
- Bicycle route (red) and hiking route (blue), Cave Spring, Mojave National Preserve
- Bicycle route (in red) from Mid Hills campground to Blue Jay Mine via Wild Horse Canyon Road, Mojave National Preserve
- Beyond Willson Camp, some of the rise on Wagon Road is very gentle and easy to ride as it rolls along the ridges
- Beyond Willow Spring, my goal is to hike over the hills and be back at my campsite at the end of Castle Peaks Road before dark
- Beyond the purple sage, it looks like the area around Death Valley Mine might be getting a shower right now
- Beyond the old lava, Kelbaker Road continues to rise slowly
- Beyond the Nipton campground, I see storm clouds over the Castle Peaks, those pointy distant mountains