Wind from the same predominant direction over time has sand-blasted these patterns into the rocks. Boundary Peak, which straddles the California-Nevada border, is the white peak on the horizon. South Coulee is behind the pit on the right. View looking north, with Mono Lake in the distance. All three shots were taken in the late afternoon.
Mono Lake appears almost to glow minutes after the sun had set behind the Sierras to the west.
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