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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #26b

Southern Mojave, Route 66 and Kern Ghost Towns, June 2011
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Day three finds us on Black Canyon road in the remote southern part of Mojave National Preserve.
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Here's an old homestead site near the Hole-in-the-Wall visitor center.
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Black Canyon.
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Desert cow.
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Found a perfect dead end spur road nearby where we could make camp and Roxanne could pick cacti needles out of her feet.
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Spent the late evening exploring our own private desert gardens.
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At twilight Roxanne and I kept spotting a small snake trying to emerge from a gopher hole at camp. She snapped a picture to show me and I immediately recognized the flat diamond head of a viper.
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