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After a couple of miles on the power-line road, I locate the nearly invisible road that leaves on my right toward Coyote Springs

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07149-wash-cutoff-800px.jpg Eastbound on the power-line road toward Providence Mountains, I see that somebody suffered a tire blow-out hereThumbnailsA little higher upstream, I realize I'll have some rock scrambling ahead of me if I want to continue upwardEastbound on the power-line road toward Providence Mountains, I see that somebody suffered a tire blow-out hereThumbnailsA little higher upstream, I realize I'll have some rock scrambling ahead of me if I want to continue upwardEastbound on the power-line road toward Providence Mountains, I see that somebody suffered a tire blow-out hereThumbnailsA little higher upstream, I realize I'll have some rock scrambling ahead of me if I want to continue upwardEastbound on the power-line road toward Providence Mountains, I see that somebody suffered a tire blow-out hereThumbnailsA little higher upstream, I realize I'll have some rock scrambling ahead of me if I want to continue upwardEastbound on the power-line road toward Providence Mountains, I see that somebody suffered a tire blow-out hereThumbnailsA little higher upstream, I realize I'll have some rock scrambling ahead of me if I want to continue upward

On the way here, I spotted several short roads that weren't what I was looking for, and which turned out to lead only to the base of transmission towers.

If I were to stay on this road further, I would cross Kelbaker Road after another mile or two, and then Foshay Pass, the low spot in the Providence Mountains ahead. (I crossed Foshay Pass by bicycle on my Mojave National Preserve trip in 2000.)