Nissan Frontier Pro-4X tackles the Mojave Road: Overlanding through history
Two days and 130 miles on one of the Southwest's best trailsMOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. - The rain started before I fell asleep and still hadn’t let up eight hours later. This hadn’t been much of a problem during the night; the sound of each drop hitting the polyester rain fly tent had drowned most of the background noise and helped lull me to sleep.
Our trip began two hours south of Las Vegas, at the road's easternmost point, Beale’s Crossing, along the banks of the Colorado River at roughly 500 feet of elevation. Photo credit: Nissan The Goffs Cultural Center, home to the Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Assocation, Photo credit: NissanIt was in the same spirit we were on this trip 40 years later, though more than a few things had changed. The voice over the radio wasn’t Casebier’s, who passed away in 2021 at age 86, but of Sean Holman, director of the Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association.
You gain 2,000 vertical feet in the first 10 miles of the trail as you approach the Piute Range, which is nothing when sitting in the heated seats of a modern-day vehicle. But Casebier, before realizing the best way to see the road was by four-wheeling it, hiked all 133 miles of it, in eight days, averaging 17 miles a day. “Twelve miles a day is enough,” he wrote. I’m no stranger to long treks in the mountains, but at least the mountains of Colorado have trees and therefore shade.
The morning light snuck through the rain clouds, lighting the Joshua Trees on either side of the trail as if by design. Photo credit: Nissan The morning light snuck through the rain clouds, lighting the Joshua Trees on either side of the trail as if by design. Photo credit: Nissan To our right was a spectacular sight: a 10-foot wall of black volcanic rock sealed us in on one side, the remnants of eruptions that took place thousands of years ago. Photo credit: Nissan
Storms off in the distance. Flash flooding can happen miles away from where the rain is falling. Photo credit: Nissan I looked down the road to see our guide Sean heading toward us. He paused for a moment at the bank before making his way across, mixing the water as he went. Photo credit: Nissan By the end of the day, the skies cleared, as did my fears that the trip might be cut short due to rain. Photo credit: Nissan
By mid-morning, the rain clouds had given way to a sky growing brighter and brighter, but as we continued west with the New York Mountains to our north and the Providence Mountains ahead, the threat of rain loomed again.
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