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After a very short break at stinky Black Diamond Spring, I walk through an area full of white buckwheat flowers

youtube-_P2xMz-b4ak-6090c273f359b.jpg The animal trail ends at Black Diamond Spring, Mojave National Preserve, just as expectedThumbnailsEnergy-bar break above Watson Wash!The animal trail ends at Black Diamond Spring, Mojave National Preserve, just as expectedThumbnailsEnergy-bar break above Watson Wash!The animal trail ends at Black Diamond Spring, Mojave National Preserve, just as expectedThumbnailsEnergy-bar break above Watson Wash!

This area did not burn during the 2005 brush fires here; what a difference! I'm starting my way back up the hill, on the other side of a low ridge (don't want to go back the same way I came).