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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 /

As I walk up the wash toward the Providence Mountains, I decide to skip the first canyon and visit the next one instead

07472-providence-mountains.jpg On the way down the hill, I find a hornThumbnailsA barrel-cactus garden at the mouth of "West Edgar Canyon #3," Providence MountainsOn the way down the hill, I find a hornThumbnailsA barrel-cactus garden at the mouth of "West Edgar Canyon #3," Providence MountainsOn the way down the hill, I find a hornThumbnailsA barrel-cactus garden at the mouth of "West Edgar Canyon #3," Providence MountainsOn the way down the hill, I find a hornThumbnailsA barrel-cactus garden at the mouth of "West Edgar Canyon #3," Providence MountainsOn the way down the hill, I find a hornThumbnailsA barrel-cactus garden at the mouth of "West Edgar Canyon #3," Providence Mountains

I should have enough time to reach the second canyon and enter it partway. My maps show that the it penetrates the mountains a little further than the first canyon, so it might be more interesting.