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02835-cutoff.jpg I leave Cedar Canyon Road and ride up the 3/4-mile-long shortcut road to Black Canyon RoadThumbnailsAfter the cutoff road, I ride 1.5 miles up Black Canyon Road, then the final two hilly miles up to Mid Hills campgroundI leave Cedar Canyon Road and ride up the 3/4-mile-long shortcut road to Black Canyon RoadThumbnailsAfter the cutoff road, I ride 1.5 miles up Black Canyon Road, then the final two hilly miles up to Mid Hills campgroundI leave Cedar Canyon Road and ride up the 3/4-mile-long shortcut road to Black Canyon RoadThumbnailsAfter the cutoff road, I ride 1.5 miles up Black Canyon Road, then the final two hilly miles up to Mid Hills campgroundI leave Cedar Canyon Road and ride up the 3/4-mile-long shortcut road to Black Canyon RoadThumbnailsAfter the cutoff road, I ride 1.5 miles up Black Canyon Road, then the final two hilly miles up to Mid Hills campgroundI leave Cedar Canyon Road and ride up the 3/4-mile-long shortcut road to Black Canyon RoadThumbnailsAfter the cutoff road, I ride 1.5 miles up Black Canyon Road, then the final two hilly miles up to Mid Hills campground

The grade is not steep and my oversized Serfas Swoop tires really help maintain traction on the awkward surface. A lot of the grass-like wands growing along here are desert mallows which would have been covered with bright-orange flowers a month ago.