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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 /
Centuries of erosion have created this drainage canyon through the south end of Broadwell Mesa in the Kelso Dunes Wilderness
What will this relatively untouched area look like 1000 years from now? Hopefully it won't be covered with solar power plants (and weeds), the kind of thing that current government likes.
Natural desert areas like this are these days seen as "wastelands" to be conquered.