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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 /

Well, my planned hike down this side canyon in the Sleeping Beauty mountains instantly ends when I reach a 10-foot drop-off

3196-drop.jpg A river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridgeA river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridgeA river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridgeA river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridgeA river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridgeA river of rock flows down a hill toward this Sleeping Beauty canyonThumbnailsI study my maps a bit and backtrack a quarter-mile up the canyon before turning right and climbing over a rocky ridge

Spectacular. It's narrow here, with no obvious way to easily climb down around the drop-off, so I'll turn back and climb over the hills and try a different way back down out of the mountains.