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Cornfield Spring Road becomes a track of small rocks plowed out of the alluvial fan

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01450-cornfield-spring-road.jpg The road to Cornfield Spring gets a bit rougherThumbnailsI'm still a couple of miles away from Cornfield Spring when I notice a small clearing that might make a good campsiteThe road to Cornfield Spring gets a bit rougherThumbnailsI'm still a couple of miles away from Cornfield Spring when I notice a small clearing that might make a good campsiteThe road to Cornfield Spring gets a bit rougherThumbnailsI'm still a couple of miles away from Cornfield Spring when I notice a small clearing that might make a good campsiteThe road to Cornfield Spring gets a bit rougherThumbnailsI'm still a couple of miles away from Cornfield Spring when I notice a small clearing that might make a good campsiteThe road to Cornfield Spring gets a bit rougherThumbnailsI'm still a couple of miles away from Cornfield Spring when I notice a small clearing that might make a good campsite

I can't ride this surface at all and have resorted to hiking the 10-ton bike. I take a lot of 30-second breaks. Perhaps the road will improve somewhere ahead, but desert back roads like this typically deteriorate progressively as they slowly approach their end.