Wed, Apr 17: Drive to Bishop, and then to Silver Peak

We then drove to 395 to Bishop, for lunch.  We took highway 6 back towards Tonopah.

We saw a Basalt open pit mine.

We took a side trip to Silver Peak, which used to mine silver, then was defunct, then started up again, and now mines Lithium.

On the way, we passed a volcano cinder cone, but it was too cold to stop and see if we could climb it.

Again, they had some shops and a saloon that were not open. 

We also saw a mirage across the valley of a lake that wasn't there, or at least we think a mirage.  It wasn't on our maps, but we didn't drive that way to see for sure.