Tag: snow

Lessons in shoveling: My first winter in the Mono Basin  

After missing the last major snowstorm while visiting family for the holidays—only to return to a freshly blanketed Sierra … and lots of poconip—there was no chance I was going to miss this mid-February storm. After mostly living in Southern California, this is my first true winter, and I…

It’s snowing at Mono Lake!

The snow is really coming down in Lee Vining—we measured ten inches here at the bookstore at 2:45pm. It’s so great to see it all piling up, knowing that it’s more water for Mono Lake! We hope it’s the start…

Smooth snow covers sagebrush and other small shrubs in a large open area, with white snowy mountains in the distance.

Mono Lake Moment: Scenes from the storm

Today’s Mono Lake Moment revisits the storm in late January that dropped over 46″ of snow in just 48 hours in Lee Vining. In between shoveling, I wandered the town to capture the thick of the storm, snow plows working…