Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2007: Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping / Day 5: A short day hike from Jackrabbit Lake to Paradise Lake and back.

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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2007: Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping / Day 5: A short day hike from Jackrabbit Lake to Paradise Lake and back. 27

Another great day of solitude, but very hot again, so I take it easy. I settle on a short (six-mile round trip) walk to Paradise Lake and back.

I was hoping to do a longer hike today through the Orestimba Wilderness well beyond Paradise Lake, but the combination of getting up late, having water-filter problems and the hot weather made me reconsider.

Late-morning breakfast of miso soup and coffee at Jackrabbit Lake.
The south tip of Jackrabbit Lake shows that the lake is not at its fullest.
Jackrabbit Lake, looking north.
Walking past Jackrabbit Lake, looking southeast, as I begin a short day hike to Paradise Lake and back.
I climb up that crazy short and steep slope on the road on the way out of Jackrabbit Lake.
On a knoll on lower Long Ridge Road, on the way back to Orestimba Creek Road.
View from Long Ridge Road across the valley toward Mississippi Ridge.
In the hot gravel of Orestimba Creek Road again.
This might be some kind of buckwheat growing on the bank of the Orestimba Creek at Red Creek Road?
Red Creek Road crosses Paradise Flat.
Wild pigs on Paradise Flat along Red Creek Road.
Another shot of the wild pigs on Paradise Flat along Red Creek Road.
The wild pigs run away once they hear me coming up the road.
Manzanita tree along Red Creek Road.
The dead-end road to Paradise Lake veers off to the right (north) from Red Creek Road.
Paradise Lake sits in a private little valley at the bottom of a steep drop at the end of the road.
Paradise Lake is small compared to Jackrabbit Lake.
Grey pine (pinus sabiniana) along Red Creek Road on Paradise Flat.
Ceanothus along Red Creek Road on Paradise Flat.
An old State Park boundary sign across the Paradise Flat meadow.
A view of the Rooster Comb from Paradise Flat.
Returning to Jackrabbit Lake, I see that steep grade again further up Long Ridge Road that I was looking at this morning.
Chamise chapparal on one of the knolls that lower Long Ridge Road bounces over.
Heading down that crazy short, steep hill on the road to Jackrabbit Lake again.
Arriving home at my Jackrabbit Lake campsite just a little before dark.
Jackrabbit Lake at sunset.
Delicious, life-giving, grey water.