dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

7/59
Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 16: Button Mountain to Baker by bicycle via Aiken Mine Road, with a stop at the Lava Tube, Mojave National Preserve /

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

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshow
04407-mine.jpg On my left I pass the big corral at Black TankThumbnailsAfter reaching the dead-end, I turn back and take a minor route shown on my maps that will skirt around the private propertyOn my left I pass the big corral at Black TankThumbnailsAfter reaching the dead-end, I turn back and take a minor route shown on my maps that will skirt around the private propertyOn my left I pass the big corral at Black TankThumbnailsAfter reaching the dead-end, I turn back and take a minor route shown on my maps that will skirt around the private propertyOn my left I pass the big corral at Black TankThumbnailsAfter reaching the dead-end, I turn back and take a minor route shown on my maps that will skirt around the private propertyOn my left I pass the big corral at Black TankThumbnailsAfter reaching the dead-end, I turn back and take a minor route shown on my maps that will skirt around the private property

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.