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After breakfast and coffee, my task is to walk the 3/4 mile over to Bathtub Spring and filter more drinking water

5399-bathtub-spring.jpg After a few more hours of sleep, I'm up and enjoying the surprisingly warm morning here in Pinto ValleyThumbnailsA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveAfter a few more hours of sleep, I'm up and enjoying the surprisingly warm morning here in Pinto ValleyThumbnailsA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveAfter a few more hours of sleep, I'm up and enjoying the surprisingly warm morning here in Pinto ValleyThumbnailsA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveAfter a few more hours of sleep, I'm up and enjoying the surprisingly warm morning here in Pinto ValleyThumbnailsA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveAfter a few more hours of sleep, I'm up and enjoying the surprisingly warm morning here in Pinto ValleyThumbnailsA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve

A few Wallace's woolly daisies (Eriophyllum wallacei) and some Desert sages (Salvia dorrii) grow in the old road, which is now an unofficial trail.