I assemble the 10-ton bike just beyond the goathead-infested meadow at the Butcher Knife corral

Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping and Hiking 2008

Day 8: Butcher Knife Canyon to Nipton via Death Valley Mine, Cima and Morning Star Mine Road, Mojave National Preserve

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This clearing along the south fork of Globe Mine Road is obviously an old site of something and well-used

Date: April 23, 2008, 18h07

I assemble the 10-ton bike just beyond the goathead-infested meadow at the Butcher Knife corral

I've been lucky so far to not get a flat tire, so I carry my belongings piece-by-piece to the edge of the meadow a few hundred feet away, beyond which there is only native vegetation and no goathead thorns.

Date: April 30, 2008, 12h55

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Mojave National Preserve and Area Hiking and Bikepacking, Spring 2011 (15 days)
Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bikepacking, Fall 2010 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Bikepacking and Hiking, Spring 2010 (14 days)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping and Hiking, Fall 2009 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Bikepacking and Hiking, Spring 2009 (16 days)
Henry Coe State Park Bikepacking 2008 (eight days)
Mojave National Preserve Xmas 2007 Mountain-Bike Camping (one week)
Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping 2007 (eight nights)
Death Valley Bicycle Camping 2007 (two weeks)
Henry Coe State Park Bicycle Camping 2006 (four nights)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 2006 (two weeks)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 2000 (11 days)
Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping 1999 (one week)

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