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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2008: Bikepacking in Henry Coe State Park / Day 5: Mountain-bike ride up Red Creek Road to Upper San Antonio Valley and back from Paradise Lake /

The views and solitude up here on the ridge are so amazing, making the effort to get here worthwhile

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00088-view-800px.jpg Finally, hiding in the "shade" of a few chamise bushes, I get enough of a signal to make a call on my cell phoneThumbnailsThe road rolls along the ridgetop for half a mile or soFinally, hiding in the "shade" of a few chamise bushes, I get enough of a signal to make a call on my cell phoneThumbnailsThe road rolls along the ridgetop for half a mile or soFinally, hiding in the "shade" of a few chamise bushes, I get enough of a signal to make a call on my cell phoneThumbnailsThe road rolls along the ridgetop for half a mile or soFinally, hiding in the "shade" of a few chamise bushes, I get enough of a signal to make a call on my cell phoneThumbnailsThe road rolls along the ridgetop for half a mile or soFinally, hiding in the "shade" of a few chamise bushes, I get enough of a signal to make a call on my cell phoneThumbnailsThe road rolls along the ridgetop for half a mile or so

It's one ridgetop after another, into the endless distance. The fingers of a faint breeze occasionally touch me, but it's not enough to produce any cooling effect.