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Getting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)

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bc-000004-approaching-hells-gate.jpg I look back down behind me again to Death ValleyThumbnailsHurray, I've made it to Hell's Gate at 2000 ft and look back down into Death ValleyI look back down behind me again to Death ValleyThumbnailsHurray, I've made it to Hell's Gate at 2000 ft and look back down into Death ValleyI look back down behind me again to Death ValleyThumbnailsHurray, I've made it to Hell's Gate at 2000 ft and look back down into Death ValleyI look back down behind me again to Death ValleyThumbnailsHurray, I've made it to Hell's Gate at 2000 ft and look back down into Death ValleyI look back down behind me again to Death ValleyThumbnailsHurray, I've made it to Hell's Gate at 2000 ft and look back down into Death Valley

Even though I can't see where my road is going, from my maps I figure that Hell's Gate is straight ahead in front of those mountains.

As for Monarch Canyon, today's destination, it's somewhere up in the mountains to my right. In fact, there's a trail (not open to bikes) near here that goes from this road to the base of a cliff above which Monarch Canyon ends.