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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Fall: Mojave National Preserve / Day 4: Hike to Cornfield Spring on the west side of the Providence Mountains, Mojave National Preserve /

From this hill at 3450 feet, Cornfield Spring Road zigzags down into a gulley and then up along the ridge of the next hill

07016-cornfield-spring-road.jpg The soil on this steep stretch of Cornfield Spring Road has eroded over decades, leaving just a trail of rocksThumbnailsI'll follow Cornfield Spring Road around the sharp U-turn at the bottom of the hill just aheadThe soil on this steep stretch of Cornfield Spring Road has eroded over decades, leaving just a trail of rocksThumbnailsI'll follow Cornfield Spring Road around the sharp U-turn at the bottom of the hill just aheadThe soil on this steep stretch of Cornfield Spring Road has eroded over decades, leaving just a trail of rocksThumbnailsI'll follow Cornfield Spring Road around the sharp U-turn at the bottom of the hill just aheadThe soil on this steep stretch of Cornfield Spring Road has eroded over decades, leaving just a trail of rocksThumbnailsI'll follow Cornfield Spring Road around the sharp U-turn at the bottom of the hill just aheadThe soil on this steep stretch of Cornfield Spring Road has eroded over decades, leaving just a trail of rocksThumbnailsI'll follow Cornfield Spring Road around the sharp U-turn at the bottom of the hill just ahead

I unintentionally scare away a couple of coveys of quail as I pass through this area. I still can't see Cornfield Spring itself, but it should be in the canyon at the top-left of the photo.