{"id":5285,"date":"2020-12-24T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:38:15","slug":"20201224mount-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/20201224mount-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 of 2020 Lake Tahoe Trip, Snowshoing to Mount Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourth day of my Lake Tahoe trip. I would be snowshoeing to the summit of Mount Rose today. At 3285m elevation, it\u2019s the highest mountain near Lake Tahoe in Nevada (third highest overall). It ended up being a grueling day hike from dawn to dusk, but I made it.
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\"Lake<\/a>

<\/br>Lake Tahoe from Mount Rose<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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With a snowstorm coming at Lake Tahoe the next two days, today was my last day of snowshoeing in the region. With weather cooperating and winds smoothing down, I had been thinking about something monumental, so I had my eyes set on Mount Rose, the highest point near Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
\nThe winter hike to Mount Rose was an arduous one, as the default route on AllTrails was 17.2km roundtrip with 730m elevation gain, despite that route included detour around Tamarack Peak on the way back. I took the shorter route back and tracked 14.4km for the day<\/span>. Based on how fast I was moving on the snow in the previous few days, I fathomed I could barely fit the entire trip into the short daylight hours of late December. It ended up taking me 9.7 hours with all rests and stops included, which was slightly longer than the 9.4 hours of official daylight for the day.<\/p>\n

So on this Christmas Eve of 2020, I woke up early and made it to the trailhead before dawn. The trailhead was along Nevada State Route 431 as a mountain pass, deceptively called “Mount Rose Summit”. At 2716m elevation, it’s the highest year-round Sierra mountain pass. (Unlike a lot of trailheads in the region,) the parking lot at trailhead was plowed.<\/p>\n

After gearing up and stretching out, I set off at 7:26am, about sunrise time. To avoid hiking in the dark, I made a drastic decision to leave my camera back at hotel, so that taking photos along the trail wouldn\u2019t slow me down too much. Thus all of the day\u2019s photos were captured by my cell phone.<\/p>\n

\"Mountains<\/a>

 \"Mountains<\/a><\/br>Mountains to the East<\/br><\/p>\n

At Mount Rose Pass (left) and 600m into trail (right). Separated by 20 minutes, colors of distant horizons had changed a lot.<\/div>\n

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Here’s GPS tracking:
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