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A few barrel cacti grow in the transition zone here between creosote-bush desert and the woodlands of the New York Mountains

7660-brant-hills.jpg I pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsA Wilderness marker blocks an old road on the way back to my campsite above Ivanpah ValleyI pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsA Wilderness marker blocks an old road on the way back to my campsite above Ivanpah ValleyI pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsA Wilderness marker blocks an old road on the way back to my campsite above Ivanpah ValleyI pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsA Wilderness marker blocks an old road on the way back to my campsite above Ivanpah ValleyI pass the last of the pinnacles as I descend down the fan toward my campsite perched above Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsA Wilderness marker blocks an old road on the way back to my campsite above Ivanpah Valley

... and a lot of pinkish-white buckwheat flowers as well.