A family of deer visit Pacheco Camp to get a drink from the "horse spring."

Henry Coe State Park mountain-bike camping trip 2007

Day 7: A short day hike from Pacheco Camp up Pacheco Creek, then returning via Pacheco Ridge; about six miles round-trip.

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After choosing a location for the tent, I bring the bike the rest of the way down to China Hole.

Date: September 02, 2007, 18h16

A family of deer visit Pacheco Camp to get a drink from the "horse spring."

My tent is only a few hundred feet from the "horse spring," so the deer hesitate before approaching the spring. I try to be still so as not to deter them (I'm sure they need the water in this hot weather).

Good thing for them that I'm not a deer hunter.

Date: September 01, 2007, 18h47

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Other bicycle camping trips on drycyclist.com:

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 nights)
Mojave National Preserve Mountain-Bike Camping and Day Hiking 2008 (two weeks)
Mojave National Preserve Mountain-Bike Camping Xmas 2007 (one week)
Death Valley Bicycle Camping 2007 (two weeks)
Henry Coe State Park Mountain-Bike 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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