Video TR: Death Valley National Park
It's the hottest, driest place in North America, and the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere. Yet if you look hard enough, you can spot signs of life everywhere in Death Valley, life that has a...
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pnichols wrote:garyhaupt wrote:
We are just about to hit the road for a 7 week drive and DV is part of that. I don't know about Racetrack...makes me nervous, thinking of a flat.
ppine? If you'd be willing to send me a rough outline of that area with the donkeys and jets? I'd be thinking that would be a great destination.
Gary Haupt
Gary ... I'd like to see you make it to the Racetrack! If you did make it out there, you'd most likely be in the first ever Class C motorhome to do it.
It probably would not even require 4WD in a Class C to do it in dry weather - just no low-hanging stuff on the motorhome - combined with slow, careful driving. Tires with a ply count higher than 10 should be on one's Class C though, as I've read that rocks on the road to it can be sharp. Once there, I wonder if one would be allowed to camp in the Racetrack area?
The preceding discussion in this thread reminds me of something that I've thought about for a long time. Does a Western U.S. Class B/C-centric RV club exist wherein they have almost exclusively boondocking rallies and get togethers? Maybe similar to what these folks do with their Airstream trailers: http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/snu/
There's no reason that truck campers should have all the fun. ;)
Phil..No group like that to my knowledge. The Jeep folk are all clubbed from one state to another, and the 4x4 clubs. And truly, when I see the pix of all the trucks/Jeeps all strung out, I think to myself...yuck.
We may come back up via the inland route...bringing us into the Great Basin in Oregon.
Gary
