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The amazing 11.5-mile downhill on Morning Star Mine Road abruptly ends at a T-intersection and stop sign at Ivanpah Road

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03376-ivanpah-road-stop.jpg After the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingThumbnailsDownhill on Morning Star Mine Road is not steep, but it is long: about 11.5 miles on a 2 percent gradeAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingThumbnailsDownhill on Morning Star Mine Road is not steep, but it is long: about 11.5 miles on a 2 percent gradeAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingThumbnailsDownhill on Morning Star Mine Road is not steep, but it is long: about 11.5 miles on a 2 percent gradeAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingThumbnailsDownhill on Morning Star Mine Road is not steep, but it is long: about 11.5 miles on a 2 percent gradeAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingThumbnailsDownhill on Morning Star Mine Road is not steep, but it is long: about 11.5 miles on a 2 percent grade

I'll turn left at the intersection here onto Ivanpah Road to partially circumvent and then cross Ivanpah Valley on the way to Nipton.