Mount Rose is the highest
mountain
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in
Washoe County, within the
Carson Range
The Carson Range is a spur of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and western Nevada that starts at Carson Pass and stretches north to the Truckee River near Verdi, Nevada.
Geography
The mountain range is about 50 miles (80 km) long a ...
of
Nevada
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,
United States
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. It ranks thirty-seventh among the most
topographically prominent peaks in the state. It is also both the highest and most topographically prominent peak of the greater
Sierra Nevada
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range within the state of Nevada, and the third most topographically prominent peak in the Sierra Nevada overall. It is located in the
Mount Rose Wilderness of the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. An extinct volcano,
the mountain is in between
Lake Tahoe
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and
Reno.
[
] State Route 431 traverses
Mount Rose Summit southeast of Mount Rose.
Due to the high elevation, most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow.
[
] The view from Mount Rose facing east is the
Truckee Meadows, the second largest population center in Nevada.
According to one tradition, the peak was named after Jacob S, Rose, an early settler, while another tradition states the mountain has the name of Rose Hickman, an early explorer.
Mount Rose Ski Tahoe is nearby but is not on Mount Rose. Despite the name, the resort is actually on the slopes of
Slide Mountain, which is on the other side of Nevada State Route 431.
The east slope of Slide Mountain, is the East Bowl of Mt. Rose. In 1964, the north side of Slide Mountain was named Mount Rose Ski Area and Reno Ski Bowl was renamed Slide Mountain Ski Area. In 1987 the two ski areas merged and began operation as one resort named Mt. Rose.
Dr. James Edward Church of the University of Nevada established the
Mount Rose Weather Observatory, one of America's first high-altitude meteorological observatories, on June 29, 1905.
Summit panorama
Climate
Being a
three-thousander
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and a mountain at a considerably high latitude, Mount Rose has (köppen: dsc) subarctic climate with long snowy winters and short, dry lukewarm summer. On average, the summit experiences four months with lukewarm temperatures (that being its summer from June–September) while the remainder of the year remains cold and chilly with frequent subzero temperatures. In contrast to the rest of Nevada, Mount Rose is plentiful in precipitation, and thus stands out from the state's predominantly hot
semi-arid
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a aridity, dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below Evapotranspiration#Potential evapotranspiration, potential evapotranspiration, but not as l ...
/
desert
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climate.
See also
*
List of highest points in Nevada by county
This is a list of highest points in the U.S. state of Nevada, in alphabetical order by county.
All elevations use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the currently accepted vertical control datum for United States, Canada and Mex ...
*
Slide Mountain
References
External links
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* The first instrument for measuring snow water content. It is still in use today.
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Mountains of Washoe County, Nevada
Mountains of Nevada
Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest