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I've got 700 feet of elevation gain on Macedonia Canyon Road ahead of me and I'm sweating hard already!

03002-macedonia-canyon.jpg From the low point of today's travels at about 4000 feet, I walk back up Macedonia Canyon a half-mile or so to fetch my bicycleThumbnailsMacedonia Canyon Road is quite sandy, which is why I've never ventured down here on my previous Mojave National Preserve tripsFrom the low point of today's travels at about 4000 feet, I walk back up Macedonia Canyon a half-mile or so to fetch my bicycleThumbnailsMacedonia Canyon Road is quite sandy, which is why I've never ventured down here on my previous Mojave National Preserve tripsFrom the low point of today's travels at about 4000 feet, I walk back up Macedonia Canyon a half-mile or so to fetch my bicycleThumbnailsMacedonia Canyon Road is quite sandy, which is why I've never ventured down here on my previous Mojave National Preserve tripsFrom the low point of today's travels at about 4000 feet, I walk back up Macedonia Canyon a half-mile or so to fetch my bicycleThumbnailsMacedonia Canyon Road is quite sandy, which is why I've never ventured down here on my previous Mojave National Preserve tripsFrom the low point of today's travels at about 4000 feet, I walk back up Macedonia Canyon a half-mile or so to fetch my bicycleThumbnailsMacedonia Canyon Road is quite sandy, which is why I've never ventured down here on my previous Mojave National Preserve trips

As they say, "take it slowly, but take it." I do just that, and all goes well.