Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Fall: Mojave National Preserve / Day 7: Bull Canyon hike, Granite Mountains, Mojave National Preserve 74
My first time hiking into a canyon in the Granite Mountains. I approach it from the Kelso Dunes area. Great rocky scenery worth another visit. 11.5 hiking miles, 2140 feet elevation gain.
Temperatures recorded in Baker, CA: high of 54F, low 41F.
![This road also serves as access to a gas pipeline, as evidenced by "marker 64" here](_data/i/galleries/bull-canyon/07842-gas-pipeline-sq.jpg "This road also serves as access to a gas pipeline, as evidenced by "marker 64" here (972 visits) Signed "Pacific Lighting Gas Supply Company." Presumably the pipeline leads to Los Angeles...")
![I like the exposed rock areas in Bull Canyon that allow me to get out of the brush for a few minutes](_data/i/galleries/bull-canyon/08061-bull-canyon-sq.jpg "I like the exposed rock areas in Bull Canyon that allow me to get out of the brush for a few minutes (726 visits) This is "avoidance hiking" at its finest: I'm always walking around some rock or shrub!")
![As lower Bull Canyon winds about, the "seam" of Kelso Dunes comes into view briefly, which I can also see from my camp](_data/i/galleries/bull-canyon/08194-bull-canyon-sq.jpg "As lower Bull Canyon winds about, the "seam" of Kelso Dunes comes into view briefly, which I can also see from my camp (781 visits) I'm enjoying the variations in the differently coloured layers of hills between here and there in th...")
