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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2010: Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bicycle Camping / Day 2: Ludlow to Bristol Mountains foothills by bicycle /

As I enter the Bristol Mountains foothills, I've been noticing swaths of a small brick-red plant

6416-red-grass.jpg A wave of optimism strikes when I reach this rather smooth, and very ridable, stretch of the Bristol Mountains powerline roadThumbnailsIt's time for an energy-bar break to power up for whatever might be ahead of meA wave of optimism strikes when I reach this rather smooth, and very ridable, stretch of the Bristol Mountains powerline roadThumbnailsIt's time for an energy-bar break to power up for whatever might be ahead of meA wave of optimism strikes when I reach this rather smooth, and very ridable, stretch of the Bristol Mountains powerline roadThumbnailsIt's time for an energy-bar break to power up for whatever might be ahead of meA wave of optimism strikes when I reach this rather smooth, and very ridable, stretch of the Bristol Mountains powerline roadThumbnailsIt's time for an energy-bar break to power up for whatever might be ahead of meA wave of optimism strikes when I reach this rather smooth, and very ridable, stretch of the Bristol Mountains powerline roadThumbnailsIt's time for an energy-bar break to power up for whatever might be ahead of me

The rich red reminds me of the colour of certain buckwheat blossoms at the end of the flowering season, but this seems to be some kind of small grass.