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After about two miles, I reach the "shortcut" from the south fork of Globe Mine Road to the middle fork

07934-shortcut-fork-800px.jpg After about two miles on the deteriorating road up Keystone Canyon, I reach a wash-outThumbnailsAfter almost an hour and a half in the heat, I'm already getting hot, and grab some shade under the railway tracksAfter about two miles on the deteriorating road up Keystone Canyon, I reach a wash-outThumbnailsAfter almost an hour and a half in the heat, I'm already getting hot, and grab some shade under the railway tracksAfter about two miles on the deteriorating road up Keystone Canyon, I reach a wash-outThumbnailsAfter almost an hour and a half in the heat, I'm already getting hot, and grab some shade under the railway tracksAfter about two miles on the deteriorating road up Keystone Canyon, I reach a wash-outThumbnailsAfter almost an hour and a half in the heat, I'm already getting hot, and grab some shade under the railway tracksAfter about two miles on the deteriorating road up Keystone Canyon, I reach a wash-outThumbnailsAfter almost an hour and a half in the heat, I'm already getting hot, and grab some shade under the railway tracks

I turn left here on this short 1/3-mile-long connector "road." I'm almost in the rolling foothills of the Providence Mountains and the Mid Hills now, roughly 900 feet above Kelso Depot at about 3000 feet elevation.