Winter driving

Phil,

Perhaps someday we can meet in the middle as we have a lot in common and more than a few tall tales to share. Trying to put together a March trip to Pahrump which we will use as a base camp to thoroughly explore Death Valley on my Indian. This winter has been a bit of a challenge with the weather cutting into my bike riding, golf, and RV'ing but only another month to go.

Took this shot from my driveway this morning looking up at Mt Lemon {9,200'}. You can't see the top 3K' due to the clouds but they have a couple of feet of snow up there. Temps are headed down into the 20's tonight but a balmy 40 here today.




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Desert Captain wrote:
Last November when we saw a snowstorm heading for the local mountains we loaded up our 24' C and headed up. One section of the campground, {Fool Hollow Lake in Show Low AZ} had full hookups and stays open all winter.

We only got a few inches but thoroughly enjoyed hunkering down snug and warm in our coach. Taking walks as the snow fell was gorgeous. The 35K BTU furnace got a workout but kept us nice and toasty. It was a great change of pace from our normal camping and I recommend the experience highly.



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Arizona is too far away ... so we sometimes sleep in our 24 foot Class C that is parked right in our backyard here in CA in the low thirties temps ... hunkered down in the heavy rain and snow in order to have fun simulating the real thing.

Our 25K BTU RV furnace is not needed, so we save it's propane for Arizona and get by with a 65 degree interior kept that way with a 1.5K watt electric heater powered via an extension cord hookup from that tan colored single story pedestal on the left :C and :B :

Class C's generally behave reasonably well in winter conditions, all things considered; they have decent ground clearance (though bad departure angles, but that's a different story) and plenty of weight over the drive wheels. The couple times I've had mine out in moderate snow conditions it's been just fine. I have no desire to push things; I imagine that if it started to get out of hand you could cause all sorts of damage and mayhem pretty quickly, and so do not care to explore the edges and limits of handling in snow or otherwise.

As always, good tires make a big difference, and there are limits on what you can do, and for goodness sakes please be careful, and so forth.

(Also take care if they salt the roads to thoroughly clean the undercarriage and underside of the motorhome as soon as practical; the framework many RV makers add is none too thick and none too well protected from corrosion.)

Last November when we saw a snowstorm heading for the local mountains we loaded up our 24' C and headed up. One section of the campground, {Fool Hollow Lake in Show Low AZ} had full hookups and stays open all winter.

We only got a few inches but thoroughly enjoyed hunkering down snug and warm in our coach. Taking walks as the snow fell was gorgeous. The 35K BTU furnace got a workout but kept us nice and toasty. It was a great change of pace from our normal camping and I recommend the experience highly.



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We keep a set of cables ,a set for the front, and a set for outside duals. You never know when winter may “sneak-up” on you, while your camping! We haven’t used our “C” much in the winter......but having the cables, is a “feel-good” thing!

You can have either/or. For 30 amp it's best to reserve a spot. Road is plowed, sites are cleaned out.
We've done it in very late fall, early winter so the roads were good. We'll see how the weekend shapes up, if we go or not.
Thanks for the reply!
Paul

Go for it - winter camping is the best IMHO. Just take it slow on any road surface that looks like it could be slick. maybe throw a bag of kitty litter in the storage in case you need extra traction on a slick surface

Does the park provide electric, or do you have some way to recharge your batteries?