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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 15: Pachalka Spring to Button Mountain, Mojave National Preserve via Aiken Mine Road /

The 10-ton bike is all packed up; after a few final sips of water, I'm ready to head down Pachalka Spring Road

04236-water.jpg OK, everything out of the tent! (including those big rocks inside that keep it from blowing away)ThumbnailsI find myself walking the bike on parts of the first mile down the north side of Pachalka Spring Road because it's so roughOK, everything out of the tent! (including those big rocks inside that keep it from blowing away)ThumbnailsI find myself walking the bike on parts of the first mile down the north side of Pachalka Spring Road because it's so roughOK, everything out of the tent! (including those big rocks inside that keep it from blowing away)ThumbnailsI find myself walking the bike on parts of the first mile down the north side of Pachalka Spring Road because it's so roughOK, everything out of the tent! (including those big rocks inside that keep it from blowing away)ThumbnailsI find myself walking the bike on parts of the first mile down the north side of Pachalka Spring Road because it's so roughOK, everything out of the tent! (including those big rocks inside that keep it from blowing away)ThumbnailsI find myself walking the bike on parts of the first mile down the north side of Pachalka Spring Road because it's so rough

I'm leaving the Pachalka Spring area via the slightly longer north road, whereas I arrived here via the south road.