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The pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National Preserve

6296-malpais-spring-road.jpg A close-up of the white fluff on the barrel cactusThumbnailsMalpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsiteA close-up of the white fluff on the barrel cactusThumbnailsMalpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsiteA close-up of the white fluff on the barrel cactusThumbnailsMalpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsiteA close-up of the white fluff on the barrel cactusThumbnailsMalpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsiteA close-up of the white fluff on the barrel cactusThumbnailsMalpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsite

These plants seem to love the gravelly soil up here.