INDIAN MOTORCYCLE AND BONNEVILLE
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"The worst I've seen, the water was three feet deep but the
mountains around the lake show the water line from the prehis-
toric times, 17,000 years ago. This was a giant, giant lake, or small
ocean," says Southern California Timing Association Vice Presi-
dent, Bill Lattin. "The lake is full of brine. So, the brine, in the heat
of the day, it'll wick the water up to the top of the salt and start
growing. That's what all the little popcorn stuff is (popcorn salt is
the lumpy, gooey salt that sticks to the soles of your shoes). It also
makes it wet and slippery. But for the most part, in the winter time,
the salt dissolves. Then it goes back down into the aquifer and
everything wicks back up in the dry season."
It takes all sorts to make up the Bonneville masses.
