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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2011: Route 66 bicycle-camping—Cady Mountains, Sleeping Beauty and Kelso Dunes Wilderness / Day 7: Cady Mountains day hike /

As I head down the wide canyon in the Cady Mountains that I hiked up, I realize I gained more elevation here than I thought

5213-cady-mountains.jpg A few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyonA few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyonA few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyonA few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyonA few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyonA few steps down that rock pile I climbed up earlier on the way up into the Cady MountainsThumbnailsI pass an interesting "gravelslide" on the way back down my Cady Mountains canyon

The grade is gradual enough that it didn't seem like I rose 1000 feet in the canyon on the way up.