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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 2: Sleeping Beauty hike /

I take a half-hour break on this saddle in the Sleeping Beauty mountains, eat an energy bar, and suck back more water

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I decide not to climb up the last little bit to what might be an official summit (too vertigo-inducing for my tastes), and consider climbing back down via a route in front of me.