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Volcanic ash is scattered around here and I can see the cinder cones that I'm used to seeing when riding up Kelbaker Road

04339-aiken-mine-road.jpg I reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsStill on Pachalka Spring Road, but getting close to the pavement of Excelsior Mine Road, I stop for a Clif-bar breakI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsStill on Pachalka Spring Road, but getting close to the pavement of Excelsior Mine Road, I stop for a Clif-bar breakI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsStill on Pachalka Spring Road, but getting close to the pavement of Excelsior Mine Road, I stop for a Clif-bar breakI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsStill on Pachalka Spring Road, but getting close to the pavement of Excelsior Mine Road, I stop for a Clif-bar breakI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsStill on Pachalka Spring Road, but getting close to the pavement of Excelsior Mine Road, I stop for a Clif-bar break

I've never been on this "back" (north) side of the cinder cones below Cima Dome before. This is a new area for me and I want to spend tonight up here, somewhere. Startled birds in the joshua trees flutter away when I pass.