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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2010: Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bicycle Camping / Day 5: Day hike across Broadwell Dry Lake and to Broadwell Natural Arch, Bristol Mountains, Kelso Dunes Wilderness Area /

I decide to check out a narrow side wash that appears to run parallel to my route to the natural arch

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7561-kelso-dunes-wilderness.jpg I pass through "the gate" and see a wider expanse beyondThumbnailsThe erosion from flowing torrents of water in this little side wash is significantI pass through "the gate" and see a wider expanse beyondThumbnailsThe erosion from flowing torrents of water in this little side wash is significantI pass through "the gate" and see a wider expanse beyondThumbnailsThe erosion from flowing torrents of water in this little side wash is significantI pass through "the gate" and see a wider expanse beyondThumbnailsThe erosion from flowing torrents of water in this little side wash is significantI pass through "the gate" and see a wider expanse beyondThumbnailsThe erosion from flowing torrents of water in this little side wash is significant

I note a necklace of rock around the brown hills ahead, which must be part of the Broadwell Mesa formation.