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I begin the trudge from Hell's Gate up Daylight Pass Road

bc-000003-beatty19.jpg I walk up Daylight Pass Road a bit to get a view of the Hell's Gate entrance to Death Valley National ParkThumbnailsGetting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)I walk up Daylight Pass Road a bit to get a view of the Hell's Gate entrance to Death Valley National ParkThumbnailsGetting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)I walk up Daylight Pass Road a bit to get a view of the Hell's Gate entrance to Death Valley National ParkThumbnailsGetting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)I walk up Daylight Pass Road a bit to get a view of the Hell's Gate entrance to Death Valley National ParkThumbnailsGetting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)I walk up Daylight Pass Road a bit to get a view of the Hell's Gate entrance to Death Valley National ParkThumbnailsGetting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)

A sign tells me that Beatty, Nevada is 19 miles away.

But I won't be going that far. I'll just be riding 3.4 miles on paved Daylight Pass Road from here at 2200 feet to the beginning of the dirt road toward Monarch Canyon (Chloride City Road) at about 3500 feet.