The road ends unexpectedly at a gate to a cinder mining area that is still being used

Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping and Hiking, Spring 2009

Button Mountain to Baker by bicycle via Aiken Mine Road, with a stop at the Lava Tube, Mojave National Preserve (Day 16)

1. I wake up... ... 4. The 10-ton ... 5. I'm back on... 6. On my left ... 7. The road... 8. After... 9. I pause... 10. From this... ... 59. Bicycle...

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Small blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water Spring

Date: May 26, 2009, 15h17

The road ends unexpectedly at a gate to a cinder mining area that is still being used

I guess this is where all that dark red pavement in the Mojave Desert comes from. I see an inhabited mobile home in the distance and decide that this is not abandoned, so I turn back and check my maps.

Date: June 07, 2009, 12h24

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Other bicycle camping trips on drycyclist.com:

Mojave National Preserve and Area Hiking and Bikepacking, Spring 2011 (15 days)
Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bikepacking, Fall 2010 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Bikepacking and Hiking, Spring 2010 (14 days)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping and Hiking, Fall 2009 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Bikepacking and Hiking 2008 (14 days)
Henry Coe State Park Bikepacking 2008 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Xmas 2007 Mountain-Bike Camping (one week)
Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping 2007 (eight nights)
Death Valley Bicycle Camping 2007 (two weeks)
Henry Coe State Park Bicycle Camping 2006 (four nights)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 2006 (two weeks)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 2000 (11 days)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 1999 (one week)

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