I go to Saline Valley Hot Springs every November, but once a year is not enough, so I made my first springtime visit this year and the experience was a completely different one from my fall trips.
My trip report is on my blog: The Aimless Roamer
SALINE VALLEY HOT SPRINGS, April, 2018
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, Apr 14 2018 01:22 AM
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Posted 14 April 2018 - 01:22 AM
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." —John Muir. http://aimlessroamer.blogspot.com/
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Posted 14 April 2018 - 01:19 PM
Looks like a great getaway. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted 14 April 2018 - 01:56 PM
Very well told story. Well done, indeed! We both agree with the cozy camper being a refuge in the storm and how wonderful it is to be rocked to sleep. My goodness, we thought the mid eighties was hot.Thanks for sharing your trip with us!
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Posted 22 April 2018 - 02:20 PM
Been a long time since I've been to Saline. Thanks for the photos and report!
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Posted 23 April 2018 - 05:05 PM
Nice report. Saline has quite a draw. I was there last Tuesday. The afternoon and evening and even the next morning were great. But around noon the day changed to the crazy wind and dust/sand. I decided I had enjoyed enough of those conditions for during the preceding days in other areas of the park. I was packed up and headed out north pass. North pass seemed terribly washboarded. Much more so than my previous trip in February.
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Posted 24 April 2018 - 04:39 AM
we were there on 4/15 night, two campers. We encountered very strong gusty wind after dark, we thought the roofs gonna be blown, luckily they were not. We came in from the North pass and went home through South pass. Washboard road throughout. It was a tough drive.
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Posted 24 April 2018 - 06:26 AM
I will share that Monday night in the Funeral Mountains it was so windy I brought the top down to sleep.
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Posted 27 April 2018 - 10:24 PM
Great report. Thanks for sharing. I used to get Facebook reports on Saline. In my list to do. jd
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Posted 27 April 2018 - 11:53 PM
Thanks for the fun story.
Every morning as I read the paper I look at the temp in DV.
Is it usually that hot this early.
105* in the camper not fun.
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