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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 6: Ludlow to Cady Mountains bicycle ride /

I pause on the way up the gentle hill leading into the Cady Mountains to look back on the sandy road

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4801-powerline-rd.jpg OK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady MountainsOK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady MountainsOK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady MountainsOK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady MountainsOK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady MountainsOK, the pavement has departed, and I'm headed up into the Cady Mountains on dirt and gravelThumbnailsMore loose rock along the road as I slowly rise and enter the Cady Mountains

It's not steep at all, but I walk the bike occasionally along here due to slippery sand. I'm guessing that the sand will subside as I get higher into the hills, which is often the case. A lone dirt-motorcyclist passes me.