Leaving Lone Pine on the 16th we made the easy 229 mile trip north to Carson City along Highway 395 with the Sierras always on the left; the recent snow creating a really neat photo opportunity.

This is a really nice road and has many quite new rest stops for the weary RVers.

The terrain varies from our starting point of 4000 feet to well over 8000 several times and I'm sure our gas mileage wasn't quite the 8 or 9 MPG we have been getting.

Here's one of the summits called Deadman Summit which probably has a really interesting story behind it. And all the way up the road we kept hitting patches of snow even though the temperature was about 55 degrees or so.

This is the Mono Lake area and part of a huge volcanic caldera created eons ago.

Our last descent of the day brought us down to about 5000 feet in Minden a suburb of Carson City and the Silver City RV Resort.

This is a new resort with paved roads, concrete driveways, and an impressive central building with pool and spa. We were one of the few transient buses and it was very private. The road noise was very noticeable especially after the last few very quiet parks, but a beautiful park indeed. So far the parks have averaged $30-40 per night.