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Fragments of old pavement on Walking Box Ranch Road

6167-walking-box-ranch-road.jpg Purple desert sages dominate the foreground as I go for a short walk in the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness AreaThumbnailsI approach Crescent Pass on Nevada 164, whose high point is at about 4870 feet elevationPurple desert sages dominate the foreground as I go for a short walk in the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness AreaThumbnailsI approach Crescent Pass on Nevada 164, whose high point is at about 4870 feet elevationPurple desert sages dominate the foreground as I go for a short walk in the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness AreaThumbnailsI approach Crescent Pass on Nevada 164, whose high point is at about 4870 feet elevationPurple desert sages dominate the foreground as I go for a short walk in the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness AreaThumbnailsI approach Crescent Pass on Nevada 164, whose high point is at about 4870 feet elevationPurple desert sages dominate the foreground as I go for a short walk in the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness AreaThumbnailsI approach Crescent Pass on Nevada 164, whose high point is at about 4870 feet elevation

I rode Walking Box Ranch Road once before, back in 2000. Due to the spongy texture of the pavement, mostly gone today, some called it a "molasses road."