Winds blowing in the 30 – 35 mph range made for a dusty crossing from Yuma through to a short way up the 4000′ climb starting at sea level over 10 miles which must be a killer in the summer while passing fascinatingly and totally otherworldly boulder crusted mountains and then at last to this lovely place of oak and green grass in a campground near Corral Canyon.

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it seems that with such gusts, dust is a-blowing and sand is a-wisping. Air quality was unhealthy for sensitive people my phone proclaimed. Crosswind too. Didn’t stop the farm workers picking something that made me think kale. Later on billowing over some absolutely mammoth solar sites. And places where the generally never ending barbed wire fence between who knows what and the highway is abandoned as the shifting sands have and will again simply swallow the metal. Every 60 miles or so is a sign warning of potential for high winds the next 60 odd miles. It the sometimes blowing dust and others blowing sand, alternately made me think of Interstellar and Arrakis.