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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2010, Mojave National Preserve / Day 14: Brant Hills to Baker by bicycle via Mojave Road, Mojave National Preserve /

Nice to see a few cheerful orange desert-mallow flowers again, this time framing my glance toward Butcher Knife Canyon

7823-brant-road.jpg Roughly two miles before Cima, I cross an intersection with an unsigned dirt road to my right; I continue straight aheadThumbnailsThe double culvert under this trestle along Brant Road near Cima bears two different date inscriptionsRoughly two miles before Cima, I cross an intersection with an unsigned dirt road to my right; I continue straight aheadThumbnailsThe double culvert under this trestle along Brant Road near Cima bears two different date inscriptionsRoughly two miles before Cima, I cross an intersection with an unsigned dirt road to my right; I continue straight aheadThumbnailsThe double culvert under this trestle along Brant Road near Cima bears two different date inscriptionsRoughly two miles before Cima, I cross an intersection with an unsigned dirt road to my right; I continue straight aheadThumbnailsThe double culvert under this trestle along Brant Road near Cima bears two different date inscriptionsRoughly two miles before Cima, I cross an intersection with an unsigned dirt road to my right; I continue straight aheadThumbnailsThe double culvert under this trestle along Brant Road near Cima bears two different date inscriptions

Mojave National Preserve's Butcher Knife Canyon, which I visited in 2008, is the low spot in the New York Mountains at the distant centre-left.