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On Essex Road, it's 6.3 miles past Interstate 40 to the nearly dead town of Essex, California at the base of the distant hills

003-approachng-it-essex-768px.jpg On a knoll on lower Long Ridge Road, on the way back to Orestimba Creek Road.ThumbnailsOn my left as I climb Kelbaker Road are the Providence Mountains, where I hiked the past two daysOn a knoll on lower Long Ridge Road, on the way back to Orestimba Creek Road.ThumbnailsOn my left as I climb Kelbaker Road are the Providence Mountains, where I hiked the past two daysOn a knoll on lower Long Ridge Road, on the way back to Orestimba Creek Road.ThumbnailsOn my left as I climb Kelbaker Road are the Providence Mountains, where I hiked the past two daysOn a knoll on lower Long Ridge Road, on the way back to Orestimba Creek Road.ThumbnailsOn my left as I climb Kelbaker Road are the Providence Mountains, where I hiked the past two days

Essex Road drops a little, from 2100 feet to about 1700 feet at Essex.