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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2007: Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping / Day 4: Mississippi Lake to Jackrabbit Lake /

Before I remount the 10-ton bike and turn back, I snap a shot of us with the Rooster Comb in the background.

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05522-rooster-comb-800px.jpg I stop on Orestimba Creek Road to check my map, thinking that I may have passed the road to Jackrabbit Lake.ThumbnailsAfter backtracking 1/3 mile, I locate the Long Ridge Road that I missed, my route to Jackrabbit LakeI stop on Orestimba Creek Road to check my map, thinking that I may have passed the road to Jackrabbit Lake.ThumbnailsAfter backtracking 1/3 mile, I locate the Long Ridge Road that I missed, my route to Jackrabbit LakeI stop on Orestimba Creek Road to check my map, thinking that I may have passed the road to Jackrabbit Lake.ThumbnailsAfter backtracking 1/3 mile, I locate the Long Ridge Road that I missed, my route to Jackrabbit LakeI stop on Orestimba Creek Road to check my map, thinking that I may have passed the road to Jackrabbit Lake.ThumbnailsAfter backtracking 1/3 mile, I locate the Long Ridge Road that I missed, my route to Jackrabbit LakeI stop on Orestimba Creek Road to check my map, thinking that I may have passed the road to Jackrabbit Lake.ThumbnailsAfter backtracking 1/3 mile, I locate the Long Ridge Road that I missed, my route to Jackrabbit Lake

The Rooster Comb is that ridge of rock in the centre-right that crowns the steep grassy hill. I recognize it from photos that I've looked at and I know that I'm not supposed to be approaching it until tomorrow when I return to this area on a day trip.

I can feel heat radiating off the gravel of the stream bed (or is it a road) and I've figured out that it's over 100 degrees F here because everything is hot, not just me.

I'm overheating and need to sit down in some shade and take a break very soon.