I had been wanting to go to the Ruby mountains for a long time . It is about a 6 hour drive from Truckee, Ca. so have never quite made it till just a couple weeks ago. Finally went to camp for 3 nights and hike the second week in July.
The Ruby mountains kind of sit off by themselves in Nevada . The drive is long and boring from Reno, Nv to Ruby’s . It is pretty much desert with not many towns of interest in between and then all of a sudden when leaving out of Elko you begin to see them. They just pop up out of the desert and go as high as 11,380 feet.
The ‘Rubies’ were named after the garnets found by early explorers. The central core of the range shows extensive evidence of glaciation during recent ice ages, including U-shaped canyons, moraines, hanging valleys, and steeply carved granite mountains, cliffs, and cirques. All of these features can be seen from 12-mile Lamoille Canyon Road, a National Forest Scenic Byway which traverses Lamoille Canyon,[4] entering the range near the town of Lamoille
My friend Melody and I camped for 3 nights at Thomas creek campground. One of the only campgrounds there. If you go on a weekend, reservations are highly recommended.
The first day was spent setting up camp and cooling off in this nice little swimming hole right in our campground. Beautiful sunsets each day !!
Second day we did about a 8 mile hike up to Liberty pass , passing Lammoille lake, and then looking down on Liberty lake from the pass. 2000 foot elevation gain so a pretty good work out.
The next day I went up a canyon right out of the campground just for seeing the magnificent wildflowers. My knee was hurting and Melody had a huge blister so we didn’t do a big hike. I went 2- 4 miles round. trip . Wildflowers were amazing !!! And cooling off in the swimming hole for the afternoon was nice . It was pretty hot and muggy when we where there. A super nice wildflower display was going on and it is hard to see from the photos how great they really are. But, here are some glimpses of it all.
There a couple other hikes to do here but this is all we had time for.
Beautiful spot to see . There are also Bighorn sheep in this area if you are lucky to spot them.
Sues Wanderings 
BREATHTAKING!!!!
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yes, it is.
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Beautiful Sue. Looks like a nice area to explore.
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Fabulous photos. I’ve never heard of the Rubies but they look spectacular. What a great trip.
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Thank you and they are worth a visit if you are anywhere near.
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Jonno, just glanced at your blog and looks interesting. Will read some when I have more time. I am a newbie realy at blogging and need to reshape my blog. Can you tell me easily, how do you get the recent posts to show up on the side??Maybe I will need to get someone to help me set it up more user friendly.
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Hi Sue. It does all depend on the template that you are using but the list of latest posts etc on the right are all widgets that you can add from the admin pages. Different selection for each template though.
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I think I need to change my template. And need to find someone to help me get it the way I would like it. Thanks Jonno.
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