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Black Rock Playa (dry lake bed), except with last winter's season it's an actual lake. I would guess it's only a foot or so deep out in the middle, however. The site of the annual Burning Man counterculture festival is out in the flat off the peninsula to the right; it's held around Labor Day (1st Monday in September), so maybe the playa will have dried out by then! Looking more or less north; the eponymous Black Rock is roughly in the center of the picture (highlighted). The distant mountain range on the skyline right of center is the Jackson Mountains, with the high point (King Lear Peak) having a thin snow cap. Upper left inset shows the view to the east, centered on Trego Mountain. The upper right inset shows the view southeast toward the north end of the Selenite Range.

Looking SE across (temporary) Black Rock Lake!

And (temporary) Black Rock Lake!