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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 3: Mojave Desert bicycle ride from Sleeping Beauty mountains to north side of Kelso Dunes Wilderness /
OK, it's getting dark for real; I'll ride a couple more miles on the powerline road while looking for a campsite
I find a good-looking spot on the Bristol Mountains foothills, not too close to the road. It's dark now, so I use my GPS to mark my chosen spot while I walk my belongings in multiple trips to my campsite in near total darkness by flashlight.
I hear noises outside my tent after setting up, and it's a kit fox looking at me! Then I realize I can hear distant rumbling trains from here, nice and quiet otherwise. Except for that sole fly buzzing around my tent: during a cold evening?
Clear skies and chilly tonight with no moon and I can see across Crucero Valley toward Hwy 15 and the little town of Baker, where I've started several of my Mojave Desert bicycle-camping trips.
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