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Old 2004-08-20, 08:55 AM   #10
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Another interesting highway (to get airborne on) is the Benton-Lee Vining road near Mono Lake. If you have a few extra minutes to kill on a trip south on 395 to Bishop or past its a worthwhile detour......
If that's the road that heads out to Hawthorne, then yes, that is crazy...good stuff.
Ha --- the Hawthorne highway goes straight forever...the place to check top speed, as long as you don't catch the extremely soft shoulder (my CHP friend in Lee Vining takes single-vehicle rollover accidents out there often). Actually, I was thinking of the Benton-Mono Hwy on this map (low traffic, quite a few curves, and some scary rollers if you're not familiar with it):
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