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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2008: Mojave National Preserve Mountain-Bike Camping and Hike / Day 2: Eight-mile day hike from campsite on middle fork Globe Mine Road to Tough Nut Mine via Good Hope Mine and back /

I stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!

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08121-map-wrong-wash-800px.jpg A pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossomsThumbnailsI climb over the next hill and recognize my location as the end of the south fork of Globe Mine RoadA pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossomsThumbnailsI climb over the next hill and recognize my location as the end of the south fork of Globe Mine RoadA pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossomsThumbnailsI climb over the next hill and recognize my location as the end of the south fork of Globe Mine RoadA pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossomsThumbnailsI climb over the next hill and recognize my location as the end of the south fork of Globe Mine RoadA pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossomsThumbnailsI climb over the next hill and recognize my location as the end of the south fork of Globe Mine Road

I know the old road is probably so eroded that it won't be recognizable as a road.

Things aren't adding up... After a few minutes, I realize that I need to be in the next big wash south, not this one.

Therefore, this side wash is definitely not the road to Tough Nut Mine!

I use this small side wash as a route over the hill to reach the next wash, where I'm supposed to be.