Lower Mormon Well Road, Sheep Range, Nevada

Lower Mormon Well Road, Sheep Range, Nevada | Visit https://lasvegasareatrails.com/mormon-well-road-sheep-range-nevada/ | We took a mountain bike up the first 15-mile stretch of Mormon Well Road from the Desert National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Corn Creek Rd. to the intersection of Mormon Well Road and Pine Nut Road. The main points of interest along the way were Yucca Gap, the gap between the Southern tip of the Sheep Range and Fossil Ridge; fossils on Fossil Ridge which we will return to explore more extensively; potential ascent points along the Southern and Southeastern edge of the Sheep Range and finally, an incredibly huge and beautiful Joshua Tree forest spanning the entire valley in the mid Sheep Range—officially named the Yucca Forest. It took all of 5 hours to ascend the first 15 miles and 2,200ft to the intersection of Pine Nut Road and only one hour and 45 minutes to return. There are mountain bike friendly portions of road but also long steep rocky sections where you’re slowed to a crawl. I’ve run a 26+ mile marathon in 3 hours and 18 minutes. Again, this 15-mile ascent on a mountain bike took 5 hours! Pine Nut Road could be a great jumping off point for a Sheep Peak ascent, and theoretically, one might descend from Sheep Peak to Alamo Road making this adventure quite the grand circuit in the Sheep Range.
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