Great Basin School of Photography

The sun was shining brightly on 9" of fresh snow during a brief break in the storm yesterday afternoon.  We're down at close to 5000 feet in elevation, but about 40 miles south up at 8400 feet in Bodie, they apparently received about 2 feet.  

You can see slush floating on the surface of the water.  We had the lake freeze for nearly three weeks last year, and if temperatures drop we may see a repeat of that this year.

Unfortunately it would take 9 more storms like this one to simply catch up to the normal amount of precipitation we normally have by this date, so our drought is far from over.  I was determined to do a little fishing before that happened, so I went to the shore, but the slush was too thick to get a lure through.  So I tried wading around to create enough of an opening to take a few casts.  It didn't really work, so I guess I'll have to wait for warmer weather.

For more photos from Topaz Lake on the Nevada/California border you can click on this photo and use the arrow keys to go to the next photo.  

For more pictures of the rest of the State of Nevada, here's my Nevada album on G+: 
https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/5712642035357745425
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A brief break in the snow storm yesterday afternoon.

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