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Unnamed basin in the Virginia Range above my house, east of Washoe Valley. It actually has interior drainage and in wet winters accumulates a shallow lake--which doesn't persist over the summer! Looking north; that's Reno, Nevada, in the distant basin on the right; the high-rise is the Grand Sierra Hotel, by the airport. The mountain on the skyline to the left is Peavine Peak (8266 ft/2519 m). Local lore has it that you don't try to plant a garden until the snow is all melted off Peavine--typically mid-May or so.