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It's getting darker (and redder) by the minute as I follow a small drainage in the creosote-bush scrub on the way back to Nipton

7436-ivanpah-valley.jpg Pink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsMojave National Preserve sunset looking up Ivanpah Valley toward the Cima Dome areaPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsMojave National Preserve sunset looking up Ivanpah Valley toward the Cima Dome areaPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsMojave National Preserve sunset looking up Ivanpah Valley toward the Cima Dome areaPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsMojave National Preserve sunset looking up Ivanpah Valley toward the Cima Dome areaPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyThumbnailsMojave National Preserve sunset looking up Ivanpah Valley toward the Cima Dome area

I follow the "drainage trail" until it turns in the wrong direction, and hike cross-country between creosote bushes after that.