After a quick run up the valley northward, with a mid-day stop to add some fuel to the tanks (ours', and the mechs) and a quick connect on the wireless, we find the the dirt road headed into the next range that we're planning to cross.
It wasn't the first road that we took, but it didn't take me long to decide that that one did not seem right. Some more map & satellite checking got us back on track.
Finding the road we were after, we wound our way past some farms and then into the mountains.
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The road worked it's way into a canyon and then clung to the side of the slope above the dry river bed.