This is the most dangerous road on the West Coast. We have driven on it for years. Not much traffic on it ever. If you have an accident or car trouble your out of luck. I might add there are now guard rails on most of this horror. It used to be to impossible to get to accident victims WAY DOWN there.
Eastern Sierra is all I ever knew. When I was a kid we owned a condo and a cabin in Mammoth Lakes and every winter weekend we'd make that drive from L.A. up SR14 and US395 across the desert and up Owens Valley. I'm sure it's just as beautiful from the west, but the eastern slopes are nothing short of majestic and imposing.
@@jeffreygreer Yeah that'll probably never happen; but their efforts at Owens Lake are showing some improvement there at least. But as long as there's an L.A., there'll be water pouring out of Owens Valley, and the indigenous tribes living there won't see much of it.
@@briane173 i know not only does the LA metro area get owens river water all of riverside county does too that means palm springs, indian wells and that whole coachella desert area, the rub is global warming at its current rate, by the year 3,000 storms won't form over them mighty sierra's, that aqueduct will run dry, i'm 58 and won't see it but many will it will be chaos everywhere
Looks like you begin north of Mammoth Lakes on highway 395, turn up highway 120 into Yosemite, turn around before Tuolumne Meadows, go to Saddlebag Lake and back out to highway 395 on 120.
Not on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada it isn't. Rain shadow effect piles up snow deep on the west slope up to the Sierra crest, and then it's like STRAIGHT down into the desert -- no moisture at all except for the creeks and rivers that run down the valley.
its always dry here, plus thats owens valley which has not had its water since 1929, the criminal LA aqueduct steals 300 million gallons a day that used to go to that area, and it hardly rains in california the global warming effects
