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5/16
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Walking Box Ranch Road turns out to be easy to locate on Nevada Highway 164

013_11-walking-box-ranch-road-800px.jpg Nipton Road, now Nevada Highway 164, rises through a pass between the New York Mountains and the McCullough MountainsThumbnailsViews of the New York Mountains (today's destination) while heading west on Walking Box Ranch RoadNipton Road, now Nevada Highway 164, rises through a pass between the New York Mountains and the McCullough MountainsThumbnailsViews of the New York Mountains (today's destination) while heading west on Walking Box Ranch RoadNipton Road, now Nevada Highway 164, rises through a pass between the New York Mountains and the McCullough MountainsThumbnailsViews of the New York Mountains (today's destination) while heading west on Walking Box Ranch RoadNipton Road, now Nevada Highway 164, rises through a pass between the New York Mountains and the McCullough MountainsThumbnailsViews of the New York Mountains (today's destination) while heading west on Walking Box Ranch RoadNipton Road, now Nevada Highway 164, rises through a pass between the New York Mountains and the McCullough MountainsThumbnailsViews of the New York Mountains (today's destination) while heading west on Walking Box Ranch Road

Walking Box Ranch Road is a decent dirt road that seems to have been covered with pavement long ago. Some folks I had chatted with at Nipton called it the "molasses road," referring to the road's surface.

I stop here to put on my outer shell and booties, to warm my cold feet.

The New York Mountains sit on the distant horizon, some 1100 feet higher from here.