Getting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)

Day 5: 31.7 mostly uphill paved miles from Furnace Creek Campground to Monarch Canyon up in the Funeral Mountains

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The final two miles or so of today's ride are downhill

Date: April 22, 2007, 17h20

Getting closer to Hell's Gate (where Beatty Cutoff ends at Daylight Pass Road)

Even though I can't see where my road is going, from my maps I figure that Hell's Gate is straight ahead in front of those mountains.

As for Monarch Canyon, today's destination, it's somewhere up in the mountains to my right. In fact, there's a trail (not open to bikes) near here that goes from this road to the base of a cliff above which Monarch Canyon ends.

Date: April 22, 2007, 15h45

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Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike Camping 2006 (four nights)
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