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An hour later, Pachalka Spring Road climbs up through a wash

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03773-pachalka-spring-road.jpg I start riding up the fan on the road to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve, straight toward the Clark Mountain RangeThumbnailsPachalka Spring Road was climbing slowly at 3-5 percent grade for a while, but now the grade is 5-10 percentI start riding up the fan on the road to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve, straight toward the Clark Mountain RangeThumbnailsPachalka Spring Road was climbing slowly at 3-5 percent grade for a while, but now the grade is 5-10 percentI start riding up the fan on the road to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve, straight toward the Clark Mountain RangeThumbnailsPachalka Spring Road was climbing slowly at 3-5 percent grade for a while, but now the grade is 5-10 percentI start riding up the fan on the road to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve, straight toward the Clark Mountain RangeThumbnailsPachalka Spring Road was climbing slowly at 3-5 percent grade for a while, but now the grade is 5-10 percentI start riding up the fan on the road to Pachalka Spring, Mojave National Preserve, straight toward the Clark Mountain RangeThumbnailsPachalka Spring Road was climbing slowly at 3-5 percent grade for a while, but now the grade is 5-10 percent

I've been walking the bike off and on, but the gravel here has me in walking-only mode. I don't mind, as I was counting on a road that is absent from my GPS maps to be rough, or perhaps even impassable to some motor vehicles.