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I've just finished filtering my water and it's getting dark; time to ride back to camp at Piute Gorge, in those distant hills

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8461-hackberry-rd.jpg I start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21hI start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21hI start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21hI start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21hI start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21hI start filtering water at Hackberry Spring at dusk, and finish just before darkThumbnailsI ride 2 miles on Ivanpah Road before turning off on the Mojave Road to head back to Piute Gorge; I arrive home a bit past 21h

I have 15-20 miles of bicycle riding ahead of me yet! A few miles down the road, in the dark, I encounter a lot of loud coyote yipping. I keep looking around to see if I can see them under the bright moonlight (they're so close), but I don't.