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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2010: Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bicycle Camping / Day 3: Day hike into Kelso Dunes Wilderness to the south end of Broadwell Mesa /

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

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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.