BLM Dispatch #1 - Centennial Flats
This inaugural dispatch comes from Centennial Flats, California - framed in neatly between the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley.
I have explored BLM lands in the Mojave Desert too many times to officially count, but I put the rough number somewhere around ninety days. I have walked almost two hundred miles along the washes and trails, climbed the mountains, and bounced along the lonely roads, far enough and long enough to feel a deep kinship with the juxtaposed beauty and wild unpredictability of the landscape.
But I had never walked the desert in the rain.
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