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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 /

After 0.6 mile, I reach the Rooster Comb Trail and I've already drank 1.5 litres of water

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09940-no-bicycles-800px.jpg At Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the rightThumbnailsRooster Comb Trail rises slowly up grasslands with occasional oaksAt Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the rightThumbnailsRooster Comb Trail rises slowly up grasslands with occasional oaksAt Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the rightThumbnailsRooster Comb Trail rises slowly up grasslands with occasional oaksAt Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the rightThumbnailsRooster Comb Trail rises slowly up grasslands with occasional oaksAt Orestimba Creek Road, I begin the hike toward the Rooster Comb, the grey, rocky mass on top of the distant hill to the rightThumbnailsRooster Comb Trail rises slowly up grasslands with occasional oaks

On a bicycle, Orestimba Creek Road dead-ends here. The Rooster Comb Trail is inside a Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed), and travelling straight ahead on Orestimba Creek Road would trespass on private property outside the Park.