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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2008: Bikepacking in Henry Coe State Park / Day 4: Hike from Paradise Lake up Rooster Comb Trail and Orestimba Creek Road to Robison Creek and back /

At Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the right

09928-orestimba-creek-road-.jpg I walk a mile down Red Creek Road through the vinegar weed to Orestimba Creek Road, backtracking yesterday's routeThumbnailsAfter 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of waterI walk a mile down Red Creek Road through the vinegar weed to Orestimba Creek Road, backtracking yesterday's routeThumbnailsAfter 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of waterI walk a mile down Red Creek Road through the vinegar weed to Orestimba Creek Road, backtracking yesterday's routeThumbnailsAfter 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of waterI walk a mile down Red Creek Road through the vinegar weed to Orestimba Creek Road, backtracking yesterday's routeThumbnailsAfter 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of waterI walk a mile down Red Creek Road through the vinegar weed to Orestimba Creek Road, backtracking yesterday's routeThumbnailsAfter 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of water

This is new territory for me; I haven't been on Orestimba Creek Road any closer to the Rooster Comb than this. The walk up the creek gravel is as hot as expected.