and outlaw re-capture. This was the “Wild West” in every sense of those words. Yet
as far as Mono Lake was concerned, it was to be another 6 years before I began
working there. I first had yet to cut my teeth on a smaller version located further east
(Big Soda Lake, NV), as well as to experience my first genuine California earthquake while wading through SNARL’s experimental streams later in that fall of 1978
(see Oremland 1983a).
Mono Lake as it appears from Mount
Dana, overlooking eastwards from
13,000 feet the Mono Basin.
Mono Lake as it appears from Mount Dana, overlooking eastward from 13,000 feet at the Mono
Basin
In case you were worried, I arrived
safely at SNARL and lived to tell the
tale to thee.
In case you were worried, I arrived safely at SNARL and lived to tell the tale to thee
31.1.2 The Carson Sink and Big Soda Lake, Nevada
A couple of years later and then came another road trip, but this time in a reliable
vehicle (a Jeep Cherokee) and accompanied by my two colleagues Yousif Kharaka
and Steve Robinson who enticed me to visit Big Soda Lake (BSL), Nevada. As we
headed east along I-80, I didn’t realize it at the time that this would be a seminal
moment in my career. The route is a far easier drive than going through Yosemite
and one that I was quite familiar with owing to my skiing excursions onto the slopes
around Lake Tahoe. It takes you up through Donner Pass (7506 ft.; 2151 m) named
to commemorate the ill-fated Donner Party of 1846–1847, and thence downhill
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as far as Mono Lake was concerned, it was to be another 6 years before I began
working there. I first had yet to cut my teeth on a smaller version located further east
(Big Soda Lake, NV), as well as to experience my first genuine California earthquake while wading through SNARL’s experimental streams later in that fall of 1978
(see Oremland 1983a).
Mono Lake as it appears from Mount
Dana, overlooking eastwards from
13,000 feet the Mono Basin.
Mono Lake as it appears from Mount Dana, overlooking eastward from 13,000 feet at the Mono
Basin
In case you were worried, I arrived
safely at SNARL and lived to tell the
tale to thee.
In case you were worried, I arrived safely at SNARL and lived to tell the tale to thee
31.1.2 The Carson Sink and Big Soda Lake, Nevada
A couple of years later and then came another road trip, but this time in a reliable
vehicle (a Jeep Cherokee) and accompanied by my two colleagues Yousif Kharaka
and Steve Robinson who enticed me to visit Big Soda Lake (BSL), Nevada. As we
headed east along I-80, I didn’t realize it at the time that this would be a seminal
moment in my career. The route is a far easier drive than going through Yosemite
and one that I was quite familiar with owing to my skiing excursions onto the slopes
around Lake Tahoe. It takes you up through Donner Pass (7506 ft.; 2151 m) named
to commemorate the ill-fated Donner Party of 1846–1847, and thence downhill
31 Salty, Alkali-Laced Tales (Mostly True) from the Great Basin Desert, California. . .
655