From a glacial alpine lake to the floor of vanished Lake Bonneville
Minden-Tahoe sits in the Carson Valley with Lake Tahoe ten miles west — the second-deepest lake in the United States, fed by snowmelt from a granite Sierra Nevada basin. Wendover, 350 nautical miles east, sits on the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats — the dry bed of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, where every land-speed record above 400 mph has been set since the 1930s. The journey between is a high-desert cross-country traversing the Great Basin — every valley and range running north-south, the watershed never reaching an ocean.