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I assemble the 10-ton bike just beyond the goathead-infested meadow at the Butcher Knife corral

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00193-leaving-butcher-knife-800px.jpg Almost everything is packed up now, so it's time to take the tent down and make departure from Butcher Knife Canyon officialThumbnailsI ride down the Butcher Knife Canyon road, satisfied that I've managed to leave my campsite by 13hAlmost everything is packed up now, so it's time to take the tent down and make departure from Butcher Knife Canyon officialThumbnailsI ride down the Butcher Knife Canyon road, satisfied that I've managed to leave my campsite by 13hAlmost everything is packed up now, so it's time to take the tent down and make departure from Butcher Knife Canyon officialThumbnailsI ride down the Butcher Knife Canyon road, satisfied that I've managed to leave my campsite by 13hAlmost everything is packed up now, so it's time to take the tent down and make departure from Butcher Knife Canyon officialThumbnailsI ride down the Butcher Knife Canyon road, satisfied that I've managed to leave my campsite by 13hAlmost everything is packed up now, so it's time to take the tent down and make departure from Butcher Knife Canyon officialThumbnailsI ride down the Butcher Knife Canyon road, satisfied that I've managed to leave my campsite by 13h

I've been lucky so far to not get a flat tire, so I carry my belongings piece-by-piece to the edge of the meadow a few hundred feet away, beyond which there is only native vegetation and no goathead thorns.