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Fields of pinkish-white buckwheat flowers bloom along Walking Box Ranch Road, with Nevada's McCullough Mountains in the distance

6146-buckwheats.jpg One lane only on Walking Box Ranch Road: for a Mojave Desert dirt road, it's actually pretty goodThumbnailsThe pinkish-white buckwheat flowers dominate the Walking Box Ranch Road area, but they are not the only showy plantsOne lane only on Walking Box Ranch Road: for a Mojave Desert dirt road, it's actually pretty goodThumbnailsThe pinkish-white buckwheat flowers dominate the Walking Box Ranch Road area, but they are not the only showy plantsOne lane only on Walking Box Ranch Road: for a Mojave Desert dirt road, it's actually pretty goodThumbnailsThe pinkish-white buckwheat flowers dominate the Walking Box Ranch Road area, but they are not the only showy plantsOne lane only on Walking Box Ranch Road: for a Mojave Desert dirt road, it's actually pretty goodThumbnailsThe pinkish-white buckwheat flowers dominate the Walking Box Ranch Road area, but they are not the only showy plantsOne lane only on Walking Box Ranch Road: for a Mojave Desert dirt road, it's actually pretty goodThumbnailsThe pinkish-white buckwheat flowers dominate the Walking Box Ranch Road area, but they are not the only showy plants

I've been riding slowly up the gentle grade of Walking Box Ranch Road for almost half an hour now.