Location: Star Peak east side -Star Creek Drainage - and Buena Vista Valley Snowpack: Thin with lots of exposed sagebrush, not particularly deep, but drifted and consolidated. Patches of skiable snow exist above 7,500 ft., and (as is typical of Nevada) the snowpack is very supportable despite exposed brush. More fun than you'd expect looking from a distance! Weather: Blizzarding hard with heavy winds higher up on the mountain, though the frozen baselayer seemed to have soften

I don't feel like writing the usual conditions/snowpack/whatever beta bits. Lets just say it was a thin Great Basin snowpack, with some isolated windslabs and generally firm conditions underneath. Its unusual to get that much snow there, but it worked! Story: King Lear peak is a captivating Nevada mountain , which holds a special place in many people's hearts (mine included). It’s frequently seen and revered as a steep hulking mass seeming to rise straight from the black rock