Place to see: Mono Lake State Reserve, Lee Vining, California, United States
Mono Lake: Winter 2008
The visitor center is closed in the winter, but the snow had melted enough for us to drive into the parking lot, clamber up on the snow banks and take a couple of shots of this beautiful lake and the High Sierras. Driving on Highway 395 takes you right next to the lake.
About this place:
A massive saline lake in the sierras, Mono Lake has no outlet and is the natural collection point for all of the salts and minerals that wash down out of the mountains. This high mineral concentration has over the many years formed giant tufa, or calcium carbonate spires that jut up out of the lake like stalagmites.
Lee Vining, California, 93541 US
Telephone: 760-647-6331
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Discovered by Paul Cloutier
on 27 October 2007.
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