Highway 395 & Mono Lake, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA
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| Skirting the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, this section of US highway 395 winds through rugged country. The Mono Craters and numerous bubbling hot springs are evidences of a great igneous field not yet burned out; it is estimated that volcanic activity may have taken place in the last 500 years. The 87 square miles of Mono Lake contains over 19 different chemicals. |