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Convict Lake (Mono: Wit-sa-nap) is a lake located in Mono County, California, United States, situated in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada. It is known for its turquoise-blue water, the dramatic mountains (including Mount Morrison ) that surround it, the trout fishing it affords, and its unusual history.
The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American Western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott. [2] The film was a critical and commercial success. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
English: (1 in a multiple picture album) Besides having one of the prettiest settings for any lake, Convict Lake carries with it the history of the old west. Previously called Diablo Lake, the name was changed when a posse followed some escaped convicts from Carson City, NV here and there was a shootout.
Morrison centered, with Mt. Baldwin behind, left. Highly tilted and faulted metasedimentary rocks are exposed on Mount Morrison. Formations include the Ordovician Convict Lake Formation (argillite and siliceous hornfels and slate), the Lower Devonian to Silurian Aspen Meadow Formation (siliceous and calc-silicate hornfels), the Middle Devonian Mount Morrison Sandstone (calcareous quartz ...
Some of the injured were hospitalised at Mammoth Lakes Hospital. The shocks which occurred on Memorial Day forced leisure activities in the area to cease. Visitors of Mammoth Lakes also began evacuating the town causing a congestion along the main road. At Convict Lake, over 150 visitors across 92 campsites fled the area. Some trails in the ...
Āliapa'akai (Salt Lake), in the Honolulu neighborhood of Salt Lake, Hawaii [1] [2] Alieiki Lake [3] Green Lake (Hawaii) (formerly Wai a Pele) [4] [5] (destroyed on 2 June 2018 by an eruption) Hālaliʻi Lake (largest lake in Hawaii) [6] Halulu Lake (largest natural lake in Hawaii) [7] Ka Loko Reservoir [8] Keālia Pond [9] Loʻe Lake [10] Loko ...
Laurel Mountain is a peak in Mono County, California.It lies in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada and is in the Inyo National Forest and the John Muir Wilderness.It reaches a height of 11,818 feet (3,602 m) [1] and is largely composed of metamorphic rock caused by contact with an intruding pluton in the late Cretaceous.