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I start hiking up the wash that will pass Silver Lead Spring on the way up to to Wild Horse Canyon Road

02321-silver-lead-wash.jpg I stumble across an old rusty water trough near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the bottom of the boulders and look back to see what I've just climbed down; I expect sore knees and thighs tomorrowI stumble across an old rusty water trough near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the bottom of the boulders and look back to see what I've just climbed down; I expect sore knees and thighs tomorrowI stumble across an old rusty water trough near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the bottom of the boulders and look back to see what I've just climbed down; I expect sore knees and thighs tomorrowI stumble across an old rusty water trough near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the bottom of the boulders and look back to see what I've just climbed down; I expect sore knees and thighs tomorrowI stumble across an old rusty water trough near Silver Lead Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI reach the bottom of the boulders and look back to see what I've just climbed down; I expect sore knees and thighs tomorrow

I leave Chicken Water Spring valley behind me as I rise up along old tire tracks that are no longer open to vehicles (this is in a federally designated Wilderness area).