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I continue riding down Wild Horse Canyon Road toward the Wild Horse Mesa area, watching for the easy-to-miss Bluejay Mine Road

4232-wild-horse-cyn-road.jpg We come around a bend by Macedonia Canyon Road and start heading uphill; the cows aren't running quite so quickly anymoreThumbnailsAnd there it is: Bluejay Mine Road; I leave Wild Horse Canyon Road hereWe come around a bend by Macedonia Canyon Road and start heading uphill; the cows aren't running quite so quickly anymoreThumbnailsAnd there it is: Bluejay Mine Road; I leave Wild Horse Canyon Road hereWe come around a bend by Macedonia Canyon Road and start heading uphill; the cows aren't running quite so quickly anymoreThumbnailsAnd there it is: Bluejay Mine Road; I leave Wild Horse Canyon Road hereWe come around a bend by Macedonia Canyon Road and start heading uphill; the cows aren't running quite so quickly anymoreThumbnailsAnd there it is: Bluejay Mine Road; I leave Wild Horse Canyon Road hereWe come around a bend by Macedonia Canyon Road and start heading uphill; the cows aren't running quite so quickly anymoreThumbnailsAnd there it is: Bluejay Mine Road; I leave Wild Horse Canyon Road here

A few puffy Desert thistles (Cirsium neomexicanum) grow along the road here. If I were camping at Hole-in-the-Wall campground, I would be much closer to today's hike, but I just don't like that campground as much as Mid Hills.