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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 4: Mid Hills campground hike to Eagle Rocks, Wildcat Spring, Chicken Water Spring and Silver Lead Spring /

I continue walking up the wash toward Silver Lead Spring and Wild Horse Canyon Road

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02328-silver-lead-wash.jpg I start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon RoadThumbnailsI pass a meticulously contructed bird's nest in the wash on the way up to Silver Lead SpringI start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon RoadThumbnailsI pass a meticulously contructed bird's nest in the wash on the way up to Silver Lead SpringI start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon RoadThumbnailsI pass a meticulously contructed bird's nest in the wash on the way up to Silver Lead SpringI start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon RoadThumbnailsI pass a meticulously contructed bird's nest in the wash on the way up to Silver Lead SpringI start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon RoadThumbnailsI pass a meticulously contructed bird's nest in the wash on the way up to Silver Lead Spring

I need to calm down, but don't. The uphill here is steeper than it looks, rising about 1000 feet over two miles. Since it doesn't look steep, I unconsciously attack the hill as if it were flat, drinking lots of water, required by the 80s temperature.