November 20-26, 2005

(Thanksgiving week)

 

Event Sponsor: GoWesty!

GoWesty, Van-Café, and City VW of San Diego have been very generous in equipping our event with give-away goodies.
Click here to see what they provided.
Please click their logos above and check out them out.
Here’s a very big “Thank You!” to our prize sponsors.

 

The 2005 Syncro Safari adventure will take place amidst the desolate beauty that is Death Valley. The event will include Syncronauts from near and far, socializing, 4-wheeling, and maybe even campfire sing- a-longs. This is a semi-intimate event with only 10 Syncros, so that everyone can get to know the other in the group. By the end of the week, people you met days before might start feeling more like family than strangers.

Just the Facts:
Where: In Death Valley National Park, California (and a bit of Nevada)
When: November 20 - 26, 2005
Who: See the “Who Went” page
What: A week of 4-wheeiling, camping & recreation with Syncronauts
Why: We’ve got Syncros, Death Valley’s got trails!
W-itinerary: More details, click here

Sunday, Nov 20 – Arrive, make camp, make friends
Monday, Nov 21 – 4-wheeling: Lippencott Road, The Racetrack, Hunter Mountain
Tuesday, Nov 22 – Free Day
Wednesday, Nov 23 – 4-wheeling: Chloride City & Titus Canyon
Thursday, Nov 24 – Free Day          Thanksgiving Dinner!!
Friday, Nov 25 – 4-wheeling: Warms Springs Canyon, Butte Valley, Mengel Pass
Saturday, Nov 26 – Break camp, say goodbyes, depart, or stay another night…
Sunday, Nov 27 – Alternate: Break camp & departure day

2005 marks the 25th Anniversary since the 1980 model year when Vanagons were first sold in the USA. This makes it fitting to have a copy of an article from the May/June issue of VW & Porsche Magazine with the title "Vanagon in Death Valley". Check out the article here:

Just the Facts:

Where: In Death Valley National Park, California (and a bit of Nevada)
When: November 20 - 26, 2005
Who: Registration is now open. Maximum of 10 Syncros. See procedure:
What: A week of 4-wheeiling, camping & recreation with Syncronauts
Why: We’ve got Syncros, Death Valley’s got trails!
W-itinerary: (Preliminary) More details, click here

Sunday, Nov 20 – Arrive, make camp, make friends
Monday, Nov 21 – 4-wheeling: Lippencott Road, The Racetrack, Hunter Mountain
Tuesday, Nov 22 – Free Day
Wednesday, Nov 23 – 4-wheeling: Chloride City, Rhyolite, Titus Canyon
Thursday, Nov 24 – Free Day Thanksgiving Dinner!!
Friday, Nov 25 – 4-wheeling: Warms Springs Canyon, Mengel Pass, Barker Ranch
Saturday, Nov 26 – Break camp, Say goodbyes, depart, or stay another night…

Sunday, Nov 27 – Alternate Break Camp & Depart day

Hottest, Driest, Lowest : Death Valley is a land of extremes. It is one of the hottest places on the surface of the Earth with summer temperatures averaging well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It encompasses the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at 282 feet below the level of the sea, and it is the driest place in North America with an average rainfall of only 1.96 inches a year.

This valley is also a land of subtle beauties: Morning light creeping across the eroded badlands of Zabriskie Point to strike Manly Beacon, the setting sun and lengthening shadows on the Sand Dunes at Stovepipe Wells, and the colors of myriad wildflowers on the golden hills above Harmony Borax on a warm spring day.

Death Valley is a treasure trove of scientific information about the ancient Earth and about the forces still working to shape our modern world. It is home to plants, animals, and human beings that have adapted themselves to take advantage of its rare and hard won bounty. It is a story of western expansion, wealth, greed, suffering and triumph. Death Valley is a land of extremes, and much more.

(Above text excerpted from the NPS website)

See the National Park Service Death Valley website at: http://www.nps.gov/deva/

Another Death Valley website: http://www.death.valley.national-park.com/

And another: http://www.deathvalley.com/