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Here I am now at the old Ivanpah railway grade, which I never got around to visiting while passing by on previous trips

3368-ivanpah-railway.jpg I decide to ignore the cliffs and keep hiking up the easier route in this drainage above Willow Wash; the top is not far aheadThumbnailsMy cross-country hiking ends when I come down the hill and join up with the end of Castle Peaks Road and its Wilderness markersI decide to ignore the cliffs and keep hiking up the easier route in this drainage above Willow Wash; the top is not far aheadThumbnailsMy cross-country hiking ends when I come down the hill and join up with the end of Castle Peaks Road and its Wilderness markersI decide to ignore the cliffs and keep hiking up the easier route in this drainage above Willow Wash; the top is not far aheadThumbnailsMy cross-country hiking ends when I come down the hill and join up with the end of Castle Peaks Road and its Wilderness markersI decide to ignore the cliffs and keep hiking up the easier route in this drainage above Willow Wash; the top is not far aheadThumbnailsMy cross-country hiking ends when I come down the hill and join up with the end of Castle Peaks Road and its Wilderness markersI decide to ignore the cliffs and keep hiking up the easier route in this drainage above Willow Wash; the top is not far aheadThumbnailsMy cross-country hiking ends when I come down the hill and join up with the end of Castle Peaks Road and its Wilderness markers

I'm looking forward to hiking this "road." Down at this lower elevation, the breeze is warm, not cool like the wind up on Bathtub Spring Peak.