dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

20/67
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White thistle in Cedar Wash on the way to Pinto Mountain, Mojave National Preserve

4172-thistle.jpg An old closed road beyond the Wilderness boundary on the west side of Pinto Mountain makes for a perfect trailThumbnailsStill in Cedar Wash, to my right is one of two locations I marked on my GPS unit as a possible route up Pinto MountainAn old closed road beyond the Wilderness boundary on the west side of Pinto Mountain makes for a perfect trailThumbnailsStill in Cedar Wash, to my right is one of two locations I marked on my GPS unit as a possible route up Pinto MountainAn old closed road beyond the Wilderness boundary on the west side of Pinto Mountain makes for a perfect trailThumbnailsStill in Cedar Wash, to my right is one of two locations I marked on my GPS unit as a possible route up Pinto MountainAn old closed road beyond the Wilderness boundary on the west side of Pinto Mountain makes for a perfect trailThumbnailsStill in Cedar Wash, to my right is one of two locations I marked on my GPS unit as a possible route up Pinto MountainAn old closed road beyond the Wilderness boundary on the west side of Pinto Mountain makes for a perfect trailThumbnailsStill in Cedar Wash, to my right is one of two locations I marked on my GPS unit as a possible route up Pinto Mountain

I'm looking for a drainage area ahead on my right that should lead me up to Pinto Mountain without too much slip-sliding steepness.