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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 9: Mojave National Preserve Mid Hills campground to Nipton by bicycle via Cima and Morning Star Mine Road /

I depart Cima and ride down Morning Star Mine Road, one of Mojave National Preserve's main, high-speed, paved roads

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03360-morning-star-mine-rd.jpg More old motor vehicles, and another crooked shed, behind the Cima Store, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the point on Morning Star Mine Road that I call "the big curve," after which the serious downhill beginsMore old motor vehicles, and another crooked shed, behind the Cima Store, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the point on Morning Star Mine Road that I call "the big curve," after which the serious downhill beginsMore old motor vehicles, and another crooked shed, behind the Cima Store, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the point on Morning Star Mine Road that I call "the big curve," after which the serious downhill beginsMore old motor vehicles, and another crooked shed, behind the Cima Store, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the point on Morning Star Mine Road that I call "the big curve," after which the serious downhill beginsMore old motor vehicles, and another crooked shed, behind the Cima Store, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the point on Morning Star Mine Road that I call "the big curve," after which the serious downhill begins

It will be fast downhill soon enough, but the first three miles are are ever-so-slightly uphill: I gain about 100 feet in elevation.