{"id":1338,"date":"2019-09-09T22:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petersontravels.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:14:33","slug":"nevada-lovelock-elko-and-the-ruby-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersontravels.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/nevada-lovelock-elko-and-the-ruby-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada: Lovelock, Elko and the Ruby Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to do a few posts about our current trip to Summit County, Colorado, where we are spending\u00a0 most of September and October.\u00a0 We are staying in Dillon, in a townhouse that my in-laws bought 22 years ago.<\/p>\n

Quick note, Kim’s mother Myra passed away on May 23rd, so we have been quite busy clearing out her primary house in Los Alamitos, CA.\u00a0 We headed to Dillon on August 27, two days after escrow closed, driving from Livermore to the beautiful garden city (definitely tongue-in-cheek) of Elko, Nevada.\u00a0 On the way we stopped to charge our car in Lovelock, Nevada, which is most recently famous for housing your favorite double murderer, OJ Simpson (just outside Lovelock).\u00a0 You know you are near OJ’s former “hood” when you see the “don’t pick up hitchhikers sign” on the side of the freeway.\u00a0 Can’t you just picture OJ standing by the side of the road with his thumb out?\u00a0 Maybe my autopilot freaks out and swerves right all of a sudden?\u00a0 Yeah, that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

We walked around Lovelock to kill some time, and suffice it to say this is a very sad little town.\u00a0 Nearly every storefront is closed up, and has been for awhile.\u00a0 Lovelock was a stopping point on the Humboldt Trail to California during the gold rush, and is named after English settlor George Lovelock, who decided in 1866 that this was the place to stop and make a home.\u00a0 Maybe it was a lot prettier back then??\u00a0 Maybe they failed to let us know that George was blind?<\/p>\n

Today Lovelock is mostly famous due to couples placing padlocks on some chains in Lovers Lock Plaza.<\/p>\n

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The above photo is about one tenth of the overall locks.\u00a0 That’s a lot of locks!\u00a0 I was surprised there wasn’t a vending maching on site selling them!\u00a0 It puts an interesting spin on it when you realize that at least half of those locks ended in breakups.\u00a0 Yeah, I’m quite the romantic.<\/p>\n

From there we were off to Elko where we would be staying the night.\u00a0 We have stayed in Elko several times as this is a good stopping point for the drive to Dillon, which we have done about a half dozen times.\u00a0 I will say Elko is pretty damn ugly, but not too far from Elko are the Ruby Mountains, and almost nobody knows about them!<\/p>\n

We didn’t hike there on this trip, but we did the last time we made this drive a little over a year ago.\u00a0 The drive from Elko into Lamoille Canyon is a quick 30 minute trip…and it will leave you wondering why the Ruby Mountains aren’t a National Park!<\/p>\n

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in 2013 we hiked up to Liberty Pass, and the views on this hike are simply amazing!\u00a0 This is Lamoille Lake along the trail.<\/p>\n

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A short distance from the top of Liberty Pass (elevation 10,489 feet), with Liberty Lake below.<\/p>\n

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We were going to hike down to Liberty Lake, but a thunderstorm came out of nowhere, so we headed back down as quickly as we could.\u00a0 Here is Fletcher after we basically ran most of the way down.\u00a0 The storm had blown over by then, but we had plenty of exciting moments with rain\/hail and lightning strikes all around us.<\/p>\n

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Just incredible flowers near the bottom of the trail.\u00a0 If you ever do this trail make sure you take the northern most trail (on the left) at a junction on the way back down.\u00a0 Both trails end up in the same parking lot.<\/p>\n

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Two more shots from the Ruby’s.\u00a0 This is on a different hike called the Thomas Creek Trail, which Kim and I did last year, just a few days after our retirement.<\/p>\n

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While Elko may be your typical ugly desert town, it’s worth a stay just to visit the Ruby’s…even if you don’t do a hike.\u00a0 The drive into the canyon is well worth it.\u00a0 Here is Kim sporting her retirement shirt.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to do a few posts about our current trip to Summit County, Colorado, where we are spending\u00a0 most of September and October.\u00a0 We are staying in Dillon, in a townhouse that my in-laws bought 22 years ago. Quick note, Kim’s mother Myra passed away on May 23rd, so we have been quite busy … <\/p>\n

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