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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Spring 2011: Mojave National Preserve and area bicycle camping / Day 2: McCullough Mountains hike, South McCullough Mountains Wilderness, Nevada /

From this hill above Pine Spring, I see a possible route to the McCullough Mountains ridgeline straight ahead, a bit to the left

1751-mccullough-mountains.jpg I've hiked two miles up Pine Spring Road, which ends here, so I climb a hill to get oriented for the day's off-trail hikingThumbnailsOut of nowhere, a grasshopper pops into the air and lands nearbyI've hiked two miles up Pine Spring Road, which ends here, so I climb a hill to get oriented for the day's off-trail hikingThumbnailsOut of nowhere, a grasshopper pops into the air and lands nearbyI've hiked two miles up Pine Spring Road, which ends here, so I climb a hill to get oriented for the day's off-trail hikingThumbnailsOut of nowhere, a grasshopper pops into the air and lands nearbyI've hiked two miles up Pine Spring Road, which ends here, so I climb a hill to get oriented for the day's off-trail hikingThumbnailsOut of nowhere, a grasshopper pops into the air and lands nearbyI've hiked two miles up Pine Spring Road, which ends here, so I climb a hill to get oriented for the day's off-trail hikingThumbnailsOut of nowhere, a grasshopper pops into the air and lands nearby

This route would probably be fine, but I decide to dip down into a wash at my right to pick up one of the routes that I prerecorded in my GPS.