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Beyond the Joshua trees and junipers, I have good views over to the Castle Peaks while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring

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5339-mail-spring-plateau.jpg I pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitI pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitI pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitI pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitI pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitI pass this juvenile Joshua tree while hiking back to my tent near Mail Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bit

Great vistas and so quiet; haven't seen another person today. I'm glad this area didn't burn in the 2005 Hackberry Complex brush fires like much of the juniper forest in Mojave National Preserve.