Wilsons Sandbox

You should be fine in October, and the foliage along US395 should be pretty nice, too. Your only potential problem would be if there is some snow in the high country which might close the Tioga Pass (Rt. 120 through Yosemite). Generally, though, Oct is well before winter closure. If you want to add Kings Canyon/Sequoia to the itinerary you will probably cross the Sierra through Yosemite, then turn south to Sequoia. At that point -- assuming you will be heading home -- you will be faced with the unpleasant prospect of continuing south on CA 99 to (ugh!) Bakersfield and then east to the Mojave again. For me, anyway, a preferred itinerary would be to travel north from Death Valley on US395, see Mono Lake, and then cross over the Sierra through Yosemite on 120. At this point I would skip Sequoia (it's nice but nothing to compare with Yosemite) and head north to Sonora to cross back over the Sierra on the Sonora Pass road (CA 108), then south again on 395. For some change of scenery on the return cut off of 395 at Big Pine on to CA 168 toward NV. Be sure to take the spur road up to the top of the Bristlecone Pine Monument -- the greatest motorcycling road you will ever see. At the junction of NV266 and US95 there is a great photo opportunity at the whore house there.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "steve rankin" wrote: > > Listers, > > I will be in AZ again in October and am planning to see some country in > Southern Cal or Nevada. I was thinking Death Valley, Mono Lake, Yosemite, > Kings Canyon and Sequoia. What kind of temperatures should I expect this > time of year? Will these places still be over populated? Any special > sights I should see? > > I saw a blurb on the news recently about the Snake Canyon area of NE Nevada. > Looks like pretty country and maybe more suited to my open-country attitude. > Anybody traveled that area? > > Steve Rankin > West (no, the town), TX >

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:59:25PM -0000, mbetcher wrote:

> You should be fine in October, and the foliage along US395 should be > pretty nice, too. Your only potential problem would be if there is > some snow in the high country which might close the Tioga Pass (Rt. > 120 through Yosemite).

We got snowed on while motorcycle camping in Stanislaus Ntl Forest last week, at 6800 feet. Looks like an early winter. -- "It's not what I don't understand about religion that bothers me, it's what I do understand." -- Mark Twain San Francisco, CA