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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2012: Mojave National Preserve bicycle-camping and hiking, Lanfair Valley loop / Day 8: Ivanpah Rd to Nipton and then Primm the next morning /

After a good meal at the Nipton Café with good company, the real luxury is a shower for the first time after 8 backcountry days

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8926-nipton.jpg The nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnightThe nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnightThe nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnightThe nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnightThe nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnightThe nearly full moon is up already over the New York Mountains, waiting for the sun to go downThumbnailsI get a good fire going in the stove in my Nipton tent cabin, but it takes me a while; I'm in bed before midnight

The shower building is an interesting semi-permanent quonset hut with wood planks over the natural sand floor.