Our first week in Death Valley National Park was based out of the Furnace Creek area. For the second week we moved to the Stovepipe Wells area to visit some of the areas in the northern part of the park. Where Furnace Creek was more resort like with lots of palm trees, a golf course, …
Month: January 2019
Dante’s View Today we broke out our gravel bikes and road to the top of Dantes view. The road climbs from around 2,000 feet to 5,476 feet. The max grade was 16% and on a cross bike that was tough. The view at the top of Badwater Basin is highly photographed and snowy Telescope Peak …
Do you ever go somewhere and get overwhelmed with everything there is to see and do? I do, so it’s a good thing we’re here for a while. What amazes me the most about Death Valley is the variety of the terrain. The park contains more than 3.3 million acres of spectacular desert scenery. Death …
We stopped off in Beatty, Nevada for a few days before heading down into Death Valley National Park. Beatty is a small town that used to be an old mining town. Now it seems to mostly get by from people passing through on their way to/ from Death Valley. The weather this week hasn’t been …
Leaving Walker Lake, our next stop was Beatty, Nevada. Beatty is the proclaimed “Gateway to Death Valley”. Along the way there, we passed through Tonopah which is an old mining town built into the hills. We stopped to check out the town because it looked cool and they had a brewery. The Tonopah Brewing Company …
Although we are not trying to rush our journey, northern Nevada is cold. We left Winnemucca with its snow and ice all over our camp spot to head south. Our goal for the day was to make it to Walker Lake which was about a 4 hour drive. Checking the weather, Walker Lake was warmer …
When Derek and I moved to Bend 15 years ago I’d never seen the house we were moving into. I’d been working full time at a Fortune 500 company and racing mountain bikes professionally, which meant I used all my vacation time to go to races. So, Derek traveled to Bend and bought a house …