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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Fall: Mojave National Preserve / Day 5: Hike to Rex Mine and west edge of the Providence Mountains, Mojave National Preserve /

Numerous gulleys need to be crossed while hiking the fan betweeen Cornfield Spring Road and Rex Mine Road

07307-kelso-fan.jpg Oh look, a lost set of four bright-blue ballons tied together, stuck to a young creosote bush, framed by a  Kelso Dunes backdropThumbnailsThe sides of the drainages coming down the fan are mostly not very steep, but they do make for clumsy hikingOh look, a lost set of four bright-blue ballons tied together, stuck to a young creosote bush, framed by a  Kelso Dunes backdropThumbnailsThe sides of the drainages coming down the fan are mostly not very steep, but they do make for clumsy hikingOh look, a lost set of four bright-blue ballons tied together, stuck to a young creosote bush, framed by a  Kelso Dunes backdropThumbnailsThe sides of the drainages coming down the fan are mostly not very steep, but they do make for clumsy hikingOh look, a lost set of four bright-blue ballons tied together, stuck to a young creosote bush, framed by a  Kelso Dunes backdropThumbnailsThe sides of the drainages coming down the fan are mostly not very steep, but they do make for clumsy hikingOh look, a lost set of four bright-blue ballons tied together, stuck to a young creosote bush, framed by a  Kelso Dunes backdropThumbnailsThe sides of the drainages coming down the fan are mostly not very steep, but they do make for clumsy hiking

A ribbon of yellow, desert willows about to lose their leaves, crosses the landscape in the biggest wash through this area.