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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2010, Mojave National Preserve / Day 13: Nipton to Brant Hills, New York Mountains, Mojave National Preserve /

I pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah Valley

7658-brant-hills.jpg I look back up the dry creek bed and at the hills behind collecting the sunsetThumbnailsA few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York MountainsI look back up the dry creek bed and at the hills behind collecting the sunsetThumbnailsA few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York MountainsI look back up the dry creek bed and at the hills behind collecting the sunsetThumbnailsA few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York MountainsI look back up the dry creek bed and at the hills behind collecting the sunsetThumbnailsA few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York MountainsI look back up the dry creek bed and at the hills behind collecting the sunsetThumbnailsA few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York Mountains

In the distance, the crest of the Clark Mountain Range peers above the Ivanpah Mountains on the far side of Ivanpah Valley.