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I pass a number of cholla cacti on the way up the wash into the Bristol Mountains

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3842-cactus.jpg I start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring WashI start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring WashI start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring WashI start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring WashI start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring WashI start hiking up Hyten Spring Wash and encounter several coyote melons left from earlier this yearThumbnailsI pass through a forest of Smoke trees on the way up Hyten Spring Wash

I've hiked about 4.5 miles so far, on my way up into the mountains ahead. I seem to be hiking at a steady 3 miles per hour on this extended, slightly uphill, stretch.