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Back on pavement, the 10-ton bike and I fly gracefully down Morning Star Mine Road

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00294-morning-star-mine-road-me-800px.jpg Behind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub roomThumbnailsAt the start of the long ride down Morning Star Mine Road, I stop to look up toward Butcher Knife CanyonBehind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub roomThumbnailsAt the start of the long ride down Morning Star Mine Road, I stop to look up toward Butcher Knife CanyonBehind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub roomThumbnailsAt the start of the long ride down Morning Star Mine Road, I stop to look up toward Butcher Knife CanyonBehind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub roomThumbnailsAt the start of the long ride down Morning Star Mine Road, I stop to look up toward Butcher Knife CanyonBehind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub roomThumbnailsAt the start of the long ride down Morning Star Mine Road, I stop to look up toward Butcher Knife Canyon

After the corral, 8.5 miles remain before the bottom of the road. The weather is perfect (high 70s), I sometimes have a bit of a breeze pushing me from behind, and I reach 32 miles per hour on the way down.