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I pass through "the barren area" again while returning to camp on Indian Spring Road

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7200-indian-spring-road.jpg A little further down Indian Spring Road, the junipers fade out, replaced by a fairly dense joshua tree forestThumbnailsA third of a mile later, I arrive back at my campsite near Malpais SpringA little further down Indian Spring Road, the junipers fade out, replaced by a fairly dense joshua tree forestThumbnailsA third of a mile later, I arrive back at my campsite near Malpais SpringA little further down Indian Spring Road, the junipers fade out, replaced by a fairly dense joshua tree forestThumbnailsA third of a mile later, I arrive back at my campsite near Malpais SpringA little further down Indian Spring Road, the junipers fade out, replaced by a fairly dense joshua tree forestThumbnailsA third of a mile later, I arrive back at my campsite near Malpais SpringA little further down Indian Spring Road, the junipers fade out, replaced by a fairly dense joshua tree forestThumbnailsA third of a mile later, I arrive back at my campsite near Malpais Spring

Plants do manage to grow here, but not enough to form a ground cover. The reddish and purplish shades of earth here are an interesting sight.