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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2012: Mojave National Preserve bicycle-camping and hiking, Lanfair Valley loop / Day 5: Round-trip bicycle ride from Piute Gorge to Hackberry Spring via Rattlesnake Mine /

A little further up Rattlesnake Mine Road, I decide to go for a short walk up to the top of the rooster-comb ahead

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8322-rattlesnake-mine.jpg From the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to batsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to batsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to batsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to batsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to batsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I have a clear view across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsThumbnailsThis unusual metal grate over a mine hole is apparently intended to keep the mine shaft open to bats