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Crossing the floor of the Ivanpah Valley on Nipton Road, I stop for a very short break to take in the scenery

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03380-nipton-road.jpg After three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicyclingAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsAfter the slow rise out of Ivanpah Valley, I pull up at the Nipton store at 3000 feet elevation, the end of today's bicycling

I should do a hike in the expansive flats here some day. The pale green appearance of the land here is quite different from most of the flats in Mojave National Preserve which are studded with olive-green creosote bush.