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Malpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsite

6254-malpais-spring-road.jpg Looking toward the Castle Peaks, the buckwheat flowers pick up the sunset light differentlyThumbnailsNear Crescent Pass, I stop to look at a dirt road that leads toward the McCullough MountainsLooking toward the Castle Peaks, the buckwheat flowers pick up the sunset light differentlyThumbnailsNear Crescent Pass, I stop to look at a dirt road that leads toward the McCullough MountainsLooking toward the Castle Peaks, the buckwheat flowers pick up the sunset light differentlyThumbnailsNear Crescent Pass, I stop to look at a dirt road that leads toward the McCullough MountainsLooking toward the Castle Peaks, the buckwheat flowers pick up the sunset light differentlyThumbnailsNear Crescent Pass, I stop to look at a dirt road that leads toward the McCullough MountainsLooking toward the Castle Peaks, the buckwheat flowers pick up the sunset light differentlyThumbnailsNear Crescent Pass, I stop to look at a dirt road that leads toward the McCullough Mountains

Nice view of the town of Searchlight, Nevada from here. At this point, the meagre road turns northeast and continues back down to the corral on Walking Box Ranch Road that I passed a while ago.