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In front of a Providence Mountains backdrop, I can see one of the toilet buildings at Mid Hills campground in the distance

03297-mid-hills.jpg Approaching the final switchback on the road up Idora Mine CanyonThumbnailsDense greenery grows around the wash at Howe Spring, Mojave National PreserveApproaching the final switchback on the road up Idora Mine CanyonThumbnailsDense greenery grows around the wash at Howe Spring, Mojave National PreserveApproaching the final switchback on the road up Idora Mine CanyonThumbnailsDense greenery grows around the wash at Howe Spring, Mojave National PreserveApproaching the final switchback on the road up Idora Mine CanyonThumbnailsDense greenery grows around the wash at Howe Spring, Mojave National PreserveApproaching the final switchback on the road up Idora Mine CanyonThumbnailsDense greenery grows around the wash at Howe Spring, Mojave National Preserve

Obviously, I won't be able to walk in a straight line from here to there due to the steep intervening drainages, but I'll try to make up a reasonably direct route as I go.