Mostly Underexposed w/ Super Bright Highlights (snow)

I appreciate all of the different methods you shared here. I tried several, but not all of your methods (and several methods suggested by others in the discussion) before I decided to give the pseudo-HDR approach another shot.

I'm a PhotoShop newb, and am still learning my way around LightRoom. The result you got here is probably closest to what I was looking for. I actually played around with those pickers in PhotoShop, but wasn't completely sure what I was doing with them.

I'm going to bookmark this thread for future reference - I learned a number of new things in it. Thanks again for your time and help!

tex