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I'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes Wilderness

6535-desert-plain.jpg This low area on the west side of the Bristol Mountains collects blowing sandThumbnailsZooming in, I can make out the tidbit of civilization that is Ludlow, California along old Route 66 and I-40This low area on the west side of the Bristol Mountains collects blowing sandThumbnailsZooming in, I can make out the tidbit of civilization that is Ludlow, California along old Route 66 and I-40This low area on the west side of the Bristol Mountains collects blowing sandThumbnailsZooming in, I can make out the tidbit of civilization that is Ludlow, California along old Route 66 and I-40This low area on the west side of the Bristol Mountains collects blowing sandThumbnailsZooming in, I can make out the tidbit of civilization that is Ludlow, California along old Route 66 and I-40This low area on the west side of the Bristol Mountains collects blowing sandThumbnailsZooming in, I can make out the tidbit of civilization that is Ludlow, California along old Route 66 and I-40

While hiking across an alluvial fan, I expect to cross many deep dips caused by drainage from the mountains, but not flat areas like this.