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3956-gold-valley-road.jpg This old juniper tree was mostly burned, like everything surrounding it, during the 2005 brush fires, but its crown lives on!ThumbnailsDesert mallows bloom in the middle of Gold Valley Road near its summitThis old juniper tree was mostly burned, like everything surrounding it, during the 2005 brush fires, but its crown lives on!ThumbnailsDesert mallows bloom in the middle of Gold Valley Road near its summitThis old juniper tree was mostly burned, like everything surrounding it, during the 2005 brush fires, but its crown lives on!ThumbnailsDesert mallows bloom in the middle of Gold Valley Road near its summitThis old juniper tree was mostly burned, like everything surrounding it, during the 2005 brush fires, but its crown lives on!ThumbnailsDesert mallows bloom in the middle of Gold Valley Road near its summitThis old juniper tree was mostly burned, like everything surrounding it, during the 2005 brush fires, but its crown lives on!ThumbnailsDesert mallows bloom in the middle of Gold Valley Road near its summit

I'm at just under 5450 feet elevation here, and it will be downhill from here to the Hole-in-the-Wall visitor centre.