Mono Lake Basin and the Sierras

Mono Lake May 26, 2013 Taken at Conway Summit - elevation of 8,143 feet (2,482 m) Conway Summit is named after John Andrew Conway, a settler in the area in 1880. It was formed from an upland plateau by the sinking of the land in the Mono basin area. The Sawtooth Ridge of the eastern Sierra Nevada, topped by 12,279-foot (3,743 m) Matterhorn Peak, rise to the west of the pass; Green Creek and Virginia Lakes, in the Sierra Nevada to the west of the pass.