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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 /

There aren't many pine trees up here, so it's odd to see that some of them burned recently

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08224-tough-nut-fire-550px.jpg I hike up the old road to Tough Nut Mine, which hasn't been used by vehicles in many years and is slowly returning to natureThumbnailsIt's a bit past 17h when I finally arrive at the Tough Nut Mine ruins I hike up the old road to Tough Nut Mine, which hasn't been used by vehicles in many years and is slowly returning to natureThumbnailsIt's a bit past 17h when I finally arrive at the Tough Nut Mine ruins I hike up the old road to Tough Nut Mine, which hasn't been used by vehicles in many years and is slowly returning to natureThumbnailsIt's a bit past 17h when I finally arrive at the Tough Nut Mine ruins I hike up the old road to Tough Nut Mine, which hasn't been used by vehicles in many years and is slowly returning to natureThumbnailsIt's a bit past 17h when I finally arrive at the Tough Nut Mine ruins I hike up the old road to Tough Nut Mine, which hasn't been used by vehicles in many years and is slowly returning to natureThumbnailsIt's a bit past 17h when I finally arrive at the Tough Nut Mine ruins

I'm guessing that this damage might be part of the 2005 "Hackberry Complex" fires that burned some of Mojave National Preserve.