Most people who ask about Spiti Valley in winter want to know about the cold. How cold exactly. Whether they can handle it. Whether it is worth it. The cold is real and we will cover it honestly. But the thing that stays with people after a winter Spiti trip is not the temperature. It is the running water. Specifically, the absence of it. At most guesthouses in Kaza and across the valley in December and January, the pipelines are frozen solid. There is no tap water. No runnin