dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

12/71
3668-hart-mine-road.jpg After about 100 feet on this old grown-in road, I decide to turn back and take the longer, but easier, Hart Mine Road insteadThumbnailsAs I approach the former settlement of Barnwell, Mojave National Preserve, I pass an old windmill and water tankAfter about 100 feet on this old grown-in road, I decide to turn back and take the longer, but easier, Hart Mine Road insteadThumbnailsAs I approach the former settlement of Barnwell, Mojave National Preserve, I pass an old windmill and water tankAfter about 100 feet on this old grown-in road, I decide to turn back and take the longer, but easier, Hart Mine Road insteadThumbnailsAs I approach the former settlement of Barnwell, Mojave National Preserve, I pass an old windmill and water tankAfter about 100 feet on this old grown-in road, I decide to turn back and take the longer, but easier, Hart Mine Road insteadThumbnailsAs I approach the former settlement of Barnwell, Mojave National Preserve, I pass an old windmill and water tankAfter about 100 feet on this old grown-in road, I decide to turn back and take the longer, but easier, Hart Mine Road insteadThumbnailsAs I approach the former settlement of Barnwell, Mojave National Preserve, I pass an old windmill and water tank

It's not steep, but it's bumpy and slow. The rocks along the road are radiating heat, and I'm sweating a bit. My U-shaped bypass around the non-existent road I was hoping to follow will add about 4.5 miles.