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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 /

On the way down the hill from the cave, I notice a long train climbing up the Cima Grade down in the valley

07618-cima-dome.jpg I stop to look back up at the cave as I carefully climb down the hillThumbnailsI now join an old dead-end road from Rex Mine, leaving the cave up on the hill behind meI stop to look back up at the cave as I carefully climb down the hillThumbnailsI now join an old dead-end road from Rex Mine, leaving the cave up on the hill behind meI stop to look back up at the cave as I carefully climb down the hillThumbnailsI now join an old dead-end road from Rex Mine, leaving the cave up on the hill behind meI stop to look back up at the cave as I carefully climb down the hillThumbnailsI now join an old dead-end road from Rex Mine, leaving the cave up on the hill behind meI stop to look back up at the cave as I carefully climb down the hillThumbnailsI now join an old dead-end road from Rex Mine, leaving the cave up on the hill behind me

It looks flat from here, but the 2% grade from Kelso up to Cima was difficult for trains in the early days.