A 4x4 adventure from the Trona Pinnacles down part of the Mojave trail, a stop at Kelso sand dunes and finally to Joshua Tree.

Instead of driving the highway route to the 2015 Red Bull Rampage our crew decided to take the long route. We started in Sequoia National Forest, where we rode bikes for a day before heading east. We left the pavement in Death Valley near Trona and continued on through Mengel Pass to Pahrump. Then we hit the dirt again to summit Wheeler Pass before descending to Indian Springs and spending the night in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. Finally we took a bit of a detour onto the pavement after one of our trucks got damaged and camped out in St. George, Utah before heading to photograph the Rampage freeride mountain bike contest in Virgin.

I spent a long weekend driving the Mojave Trail in my 4x4 Jeep from Needles to Barstow.