Death Valley Tour in the Winter?

[etu]

Turns out I'll have a week by myself around Christmas. Thinking of doing a self-supported bike tour from Lone Pine to Furance Creek and getting a ride back. Anyone familiar with Death Valley in the winter? First winter tour, any advice from the touring experts on the forum would be greatly appreciated.

[Ken Robb]

You mean camping?

[Mzilliox]

need any company? :rolleyes: with more than one vehicle we could do our own shuttle, have one vehicle at one end, drop the other at the other end.:bike:

[etu]

Tentative plan
Day 1 Lone Pine to Emigrant campsite (elevation 2000)
Day 2 Ride up to Wildrose, with option to ride down to Panamint Valley Road or do an out an back
Day 3 Ride to Furnace Creek - camp
Day 4 Out and Back Ride to Dante's Point, etc - camp/hotel
Day 5 - Drive back to Lone Pine

[etu]

need any company? :rolleyes: with more than one vehicle we could do our own shuttle, have one vehicle at one end, drop the other at the other end.:bike:

That would be awesome!
Will Pm you

[PeregrineA1]

We camped for an awesome week between Xmas and NY a few years ago. Brilliant skies, relatively uncrowded, and cold. Lows in the high teens and low twenties, highs in the mid forties. This was during a record cold spell.

Didn't take bikes, but will next time. We did a lot of 4WD exploring and hiking. Took literally thousands of pictures-got to love digital....

[cadence90]

No bikes, just camping, a few times at Christmas-NY. It's beautiful.

BUT: Please be well-jacketed, -gloved, -booted, and -hatted. It can get extremely cold out there during this period.