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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2010, Mojave National Preserve / Day 11: Juniper Spring day hike from Malpais Spring, Mojave National Preserve /

Juniper Spring wash is an easy descent as it winds down the north side of the New York Mountains

7008-juniper-spring-wash.jpg On the way down through a floriferous area in Juniper Spring wash, I pass an especially bright juniperThumbnailsA barrel cactus has detached from its hillside garden and tumbled down into Juniper Spring washOn the way down through a floriferous area in Juniper Spring wash, I pass an especially bright juniperThumbnailsA barrel cactus has detached from its hillside garden and tumbled down into Juniper Spring washOn the way down through a floriferous area in Juniper Spring wash, I pass an especially bright juniperThumbnailsA barrel cactus has detached from its hillside garden and tumbled down into Juniper Spring washOn the way down through a floriferous area in Juniper Spring wash, I pass an especially bright juniperThumbnailsA barrel cactus has detached from its hillside garden and tumbled down into Juniper Spring washOn the way down through a floriferous area in Juniper Spring wash, I pass an especially bright juniperThumbnailsA barrel cactus has detached from its hillside garden and tumbled down into Juniper Spring wash

I thought there might be more rock and less sand in the wash, and possible obstructions. I wasn't expecting to run across motorcycle tracks.