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Filtering water from Cottonwood Spring, Mojave National Preserve

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00011-pumping-cottonwood-spring-800px.jpg A mile north of my campsite is "the fork" in the road to Cottonwood Canyon and Butcher Knife CanyonThumbnailsThe joshua tree forest gets denser as one gets closer to Cottonwood Canyon at the bottom of the mountainsA mile north of my campsite is "the fork" in the road to Cottonwood Canyon and Butcher Knife CanyonThumbnailsThe joshua tree forest gets denser as one gets closer to Cottonwood Canyon at the bottom of the mountainsA mile north of my campsite is "the fork" in the road to Cottonwood Canyon and Butcher Knife CanyonThumbnailsThe joshua tree forest gets denser as one gets closer to Cottonwood Canyon at the bottom of the mountainsA mile north of my campsite is "the fork" in the road to Cottonwood Canyon and Butcher Knife CanyonThumbnailsThe joshua tree forest gets denser as one gets closer to Cottonwood Canyon at the bottom of the mountainsA mile north of my campsite is "the fork" in the road to Cottonwood Canyon and Butcher Knife CanyonThumbnailsThe joshua tree forest gets denser as one gets closer to Cottonwood Canyon at the bottom of the mountains

I've waited five minutes, and the silt in the depression that I dug in the stream has cleared away. I'm filling my half-depleted two-litre Camelbak and two empty 1.5-litre water bottles.