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About 1.75 miles past "10-mile bend," I turn right at the blink-and-you-miss-it dirt road to 17-Mile Point

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06097-mojave-road.jpg From "10-mile bend" on Kelbaker Road, I can see the dust from four-wheel-drive vehicles travelling the old Mojave RoadThumbnailsI haven't been down this road before; I'm ready to ride down to 17-Mile Point (the near hill at left)From "10-mile bend" on Kelbaker Road, I can see the dust from four-wheel-drive vehicles travelling the old Mojave RoadThumbnailsI haven't been down this road before; I'm ready to ride down to 17-Mile Point (the near hill at left)From "10-mile bend" on Kelbaker Road, I can see the dust from four-wheel-drive vehicles travelling the old Mojave RoadThumbnailsI haven't been down this road before; I'm ready to ride down to 17-Mile Point (the near hill at left)From "10-mile bend" on Kelbaker Road, I can see the dust from four-wheel-drive vehicles travelling the old Mojave RoadThumbnailsI haven't been down this road before; I'm ready to ride down to 17-Mile Point (the near hill at left)From "10-mile bend" on Kelbaker Road, I can see the dust from four-wheel-drive vehicles travelling the old Mojave RoadThumbnailsI haven't been down this road before; I'm ready to ride down to 17-Mile Point (the near hill at left)

No more pavement today (nor tomorrow). I'm at about 2100 feet elevation now, the high point for today, and have a few hundred feet of gentle downhill ahead (to be followed by a bit more uphill).