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	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS
		Ruby Crest Trail information is presented along with an abbreviated trail route that passes all the same lakes along the full length trail but reduces the distance from 42 miles to 30 miles.
		Mountain goats are native to parts of Canada and the northwestern U.S. They were introduced into the Ruby Mountains during the 1960's.
		Mountain goat hooves are adapted for this rocky habitat.
	www.rubymountains.net (11216 words)

	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest - About Us - Ruby Mountains Ranger District
		The Ruby Mountains Ranger District is made up of the East Humboldt and Ruby Mountain Ranges.
		The Ruby Mountains is well-known for its spectacular spring flowers starting in May and producing color in the higher elevations through July.
		The Ruby Mountains were named for the numerous garnets found in the area by the early pioneers.
	www.fs.fed.us /r4/htnf/districts/ruby_mountain.shtml (276 words)

	Ruby Road Scenic Drive
		Ruby Road Scenic Drive is a border country drive featuring good views of rolling hills and towering buttes, a desert oasis inhabited by rare plants and birds, an old ghost town, and two picturesque lakes.
		Ruby Road got its name from a once thriving mining camp located a short distance south of the road on the edge of the Pajarito Mountains.
		The country which Ruby Road passes through is covered with grassy savannas and dotted with various species of oak, while an occasional clump of desert spoon, yucca, or prickly pear cactus add to the high desert ambiance.
	www.go-arizona.com /Ruby-Road-Scenic-Drive (476 words)

	Ruby Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To the east lies Ruby Valley, and to the west lie Huntington and Lamoille Valleys.
		The highest peak is Ruby Dome (11,387 ft, 3470 m), located at 40°37.3'N and 115°28.5'W in the central core of the range, about 21 miles southeast of the community of Elko.
		Mountain goats, bighorn sheep, mule deer, mountain lions, marmots, beaver, and pikas are common residents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruby_Mountains (537 words)

	desertislands.org (Exploring the Great Basin!)
		Ruby Valley is 70 miles long and averages 10 miles wide and runs in a north and south direction.
		Rogers settled at Overland Creek Fort Ruby was established in 1862 in the southern end of the valley to protect the Overland Stages carrying mail and passengers from Indian attacks after the Pony Express was discontinued.
		The Ruby Valley Fish Hatchery was established in 1940 by Elko County.
	www.desertislands.org /ruby.htm (953 words)

	Ruby Marsh Wildlife Refuge, Ruby Valley, Nevada
		Ruby Valley extends from a portion of the northwest corner of White Pine County, Nevada with its largest part in Elko County, Nevada.
		Ruby Valley is 70 miles long and averages 10 miles wide and runs in a north and south direction.
		Fort Ruby was established in 1862 in the southern end of the valley to protect the Overland Stages carrying mail and passengers from Indian attacks after the Pony Express was discontinued.
	www.webpanda.com /white_pine_county/Places/ruby_marsh.htm (1112 words)

	Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge
		Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which supports the largest population of nesting Canvasback ducks west of the Mississippi River outside Alaska, is a vital waterfowl nesting area.
		At 6,000 feet in elevation beneath the snow-covered Ruby Mountains, it's 17,000-acre marsh is a remnant of a larger body of water known as Ancient Lake Franklin, which existed during the Pleistocene Epoch.
		Ruby Lake is a unique refuge, set far away from civilization, but the area has held such a great impact on the development of the country.
	www.fws.gov /rubylake (251 words)

	Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4220 -- Introduction
		The Ruby Lake NWR headquarters and Gallagher State Fish Hatchery are located along the east flank of the Ruby Mountains adjacent to Ruby Lake, in the southern part of the valley.
		The floor of Ruby Valley has been downdropped relative to the adjacent mountains, forming a structural basin that is filled with interbedded deposits of gravel, sand, silt, and clay derived primarily from adjacent mountains.
		Ruby Valley is in a middle-latitude desert and steppe climate that is dominated by tropical air masses in the summer and continental polar air masses in the winter (Houghton and others, 1975, p.
	pubs.usgs.gov /wri/wri014234/text/05_general.htm (1608 words)

	A ruby in the rough (printable version)
		Although the stunning scenery in the Ruby Mountains may be the big draw for many hikers, the abundance and diversity of birds and animals also attracts many wildlife watchers and hunters.
		Mountain goats and bighorn sheep are among the range’s most famous residents.
		A smaller creature of the Ruby Mountains, the Columbia spotted frog, thrives in the beaver ponds.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=55050 (1908 words)

	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS PART 2
		Not considering the entire Ruby Crest trail due to its length, this trail to Overland is one of the most difficult routes to any destination that has a trail over the entire distance.
		The Ruby Dome ranch now occupies this area and although the road still branches off the Lamoille road, it passes through a private gate into the ranch and the road is not available for public access.
		Ruby Crest Ranch is located near the South Fork Reservoir in the general direction of the community of Lee.
	www.rubymountains.net /liberty2.html (10302 words)

	Fish the West
		Ruby Marshes, NV Between March and April and again in the fall, approximately 18,000 9-inch rainbow trout are scheduled to be stocked.
		Ruby Lake is a natural, spring fed, high elevation marsh, located entirely on the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
		Ruby Lake lies at an elevation of 6,000 feet in a closed basin.
	www.fishthewest.com /fishing/ruby_marshes (404 words)

	Ruby - Arizona Ghost Town
		Ruby is one of the leading ghost towns in the country, passed only by Vulture who had more standing buildings.
		From Ruby Mountain they looked down toward Mexico, the land of manana, of romance, and of other, more sinister, things when suddenly Pearson’s horse picked up his ears and braced his forelegs stiffly.
		For their complicity in the Ruby post office atrocity, Martinez was sentenced to be hanged on August 18, 1922, while Silvas was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Arizona state penitentiary.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/az/ruby.html (7410 words)

	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS
		Cave Creek emerges from a granite wall within the Ruby Mountain range and soldiers intent on exploring the cave are to have met disasterous ends.
		Nevada's Swiss Alps, the Ruby Mountains Wilderness and East Humboldt Wilderness, are centrally located 20 miles south of Elko, Nevada, near the ranching community of Lamoille in Northeastern Nevada.
		Mountain lion sightings are few and far between but these mountains are home for quite a few of them.
	rubymountains.org /lamoille (9029 words)

	CVO Menu - America's Volcanic Past - Montana
		The last mountain building event, the Laramide orogeny, (about 70-40 million years ago) the last of the three episodes, is responsible for raising the Rocky Mountains.
		The mountains contain sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock, the latter of which -- pink granites and streaky gneisses and schists -- are exposed across large areas.
		The Boulder Batholith makes up the jumble of mountains along the Continental Divide between Helena and Butte, mountains well-known for their striking and strangely shaped rocks, some of which are the result of related volcanic activity.
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_montana.html (3586 words)

	Fort Ruby, Calvary, White Pine County, Nevada
		Fort Ruby is on the main drag through Ruby Valley, four miles south of the Elko - White Pine County line and eight miles south of the Gallagher Fish Hatchery.
		Fort Ruby: (Ruby Valley in northern White Pine County) Established in 1862 by Colonel Edward P. Connor with 600 men who marched all the way from Stockton, California.
		The distant mountain range is the Maverick Springs Range.
	www.elkorose.com /ftruby.html (359 words)

	Tahoe World - Road trips: Go east to the Ruby Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ruby Mountains and their irridescent Aspens, alpine lakes and gurgling streams, are a mind-blowing change of pace after a 350-mile drive through the gray and brown of bone dry Nevada.
		This time of year, the Rubies canyons and hanging valleys are a river of yellow and orange, as millions of Aspens put on a technicolor show before the winter snows arrive.
		If you are in the Rubies for the fall colors, camp at the Thomas Canyon campground off of Lamiolle Canyon for a mere $10 and hike up through fields of orange, alongside a gurgling stream that cascades, falls and pools its way down to Lamoille canyon.
	www.tahoe-world.com /content/view/2138/92 (572 words)

	Ruby Mountain Brewing Co. -- Ruby Mountain Beer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ruby Mountain Brewing Company is located on Angel Creek ranch in Clover Valley, at the base of the East Humbolt range of Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
		Established in 1994, Ruby Mountain Brewing is Nevada's only microbrewery brewing and packaging beer for off premise sale in kegs, bottles and party pigs.
		Still brewed with only the finest malted grains, choicest hops, yeast, and pure Ruby Mountain water, we are proud to offer these beers to an appreciative public.
	www.rubymountainbrewing.com /company.html (201 words)

	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS PART 3
		Ruby Valley is on the far side of the ridge in the left photo.
		Hole in the Mountain Peak is visible near the skyline of a distant ridge.
		Most Ruby Mountain trips are run under the auspicies of the "Ruby Alpinists", a specialty group of the California Adventure Club.
	www.rubymountains.org /packtrip/index.html (4087 words)

	Ruby Valley School, Nevada
		Fort Ruby: (Ruby Valley in northern White Pine County) Established in 1862 by Colonel Edward P. Connor with 600 men who marched all the way from Stockton, California.
		Its name came from the nearby mountains where pioneers found "rubies" and "ruby sand," actually garnets, in the gravel of the streams.
		Harrison Pass: (Ruby Mountains) Thomas Harrison, a native of England, came to Elko County in 1865 and established a ranch in Ruby Valley.
	www.elko.k12.nv.us /ruby/history.html (309 words)

	Recreation.gov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the Ruby Mountains Wilderness, this process began in 1989 when 90,000 acres were designated by Public Law 101-195.
		The Ruby Mountains Wilderness is part of the 106 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
		In an age of "...increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization," you play an important role in helping to "secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness" as called for by the Congress of the United States through the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	www.recreation.gov /detail.cfm?ID=4745 (313 words)

	Sierra Club Outings \| Ruby Mountains Wilderness Trail Reconstruction, Nevada \| 06340A
		The Ruby Mountains are an oasis of high country surrounded by desert.
		Ruby Mountain wildlife includes mountain goats, mountain sheep, mountain lions, mule deer, Himalayan snow cocks, and Hungarian partridges, but no bears (the range is too isolated).
		There is little public access to the Ruby Mountains because local ranchers have denied access to Forest Service roads that cross their ranches.
	www.sierraclub.org /outings/national/brochure/06340A.asp (1281 words)

	NARGS Ruby Mountains Tour
		The Rubies, named after the red garnets that were mined there, are believed by many to be the most scenic and beautiful of Nevada's 314 mountain ranges.
		Rich in wildflowers, the Ruby Mountains contain over 700 species of plants of which 189 are alpine, in addition to abundant wildlife and birds.
		Harrison pass divides the Rubies, to the north the mountains are granitic rock and to the south limestone rock, with different species growing on each strata.
	www.nargs.org /Rubyindex.html (2710 words)

	Elko, Lamoille, Ruby Mountains
		Ruby Mountain Heli Ski, (702) 753-6867, which helicopters skiers into the mountains to tackle virgin snow, is also based here in winter.
		Extending to Green Mountain and Harrison Pass Road, some 40 miles to the south, the trail's first 5 to 10 miles tend to be most popular for day hiking.
		Among the Ruby Mountain sites are Angel Lake Camp, in the northern part of the range, Thomas Canyon Campground, in Lamoille Canyon, and Ruby Marsh, in the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
	www.calneva.com /elko/elko1.htm (790 words)

	Ruby Mountains. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Ruby Mountains, largely in Elko co., NE Nev.; extend S into White Pine co., SE of Elko, and c.60 mi/97 km SSW from East Humboldt Range through part of Humboldt Natl.
		Forest; 40°37'N 115°28'W. Ruby Dune (11,387 ft/3,471 m) in NW, Pearl Peak (10,847 ft/3,306 m) in S. South Fork of Humboldt R. to W. Ruby Mt. Scenic Area in NW part of range.
		Ruby L. is just E, includes glaciated Lamoille Canyon.
	www.bartleby.com /69/18/R05118.html (115 words)

	Ruby Mountain, NV - Hiking, Backpacking and Camping in Nevada
		Ruby Mountain, NV - Hiking, Backpacking and Camping in Nevada
		Ruby Mountain, NV Hiding in the arid plains of Nevada you'll find a cool refuge from the desert heat and room to let your imagination soar.
		The soldier Basin(031) and Soldier-Griswold Trails(032) begin 20 miles north of the town of Lamoille, climbing 5 miles to lakes in Soldier Basin and beyond.
	www.thecampingguide.com /articles/outdoors/Ruby-Mountain-NV.asp (264 words)

	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS PART 3 SUPPLEMENT
		Hole in the Mountain, also referred to as Lizzie's Window (named after the pioneer woman for whom credit is given for first viewing the window) is located in the East Humboldt range in the general vicinity of Boulder Lake.
		Hole in the Mountain Peak, with an elevation of 11,306 feet (sometimes indicated as 11,276 feet), is the highest peak in the East Humboldts and is a more rounded looking peak located just a short distance north of the window.
		At the intersection with the Ruby Valley road, three or four miles from the top of the pass, the road improves from washboard to a smooth surface.
	www.rubymountains.com /echo.html (4591 words)

	Ruby Mountains Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It follows the crest of the Rubies from lamoille Canyon to harrison Pass, 40 miles to the south.
		From Lamoille Canyon on the north to Harrison Pass on the south, a trail runs on or near the crest of the central Ruby Mountains for 43 miles.
		The steeper face of the Rubies is the east one.
	www.nevadawilderness.org /northeast/ruby_trails.htm (468 words)

	Ruby Mountains Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name of the Ruby Mountains evokes an image of high, multi-faceted, granite-like peaks soaring above lush green meadows and sparkling sapphire blue lakes.
		The "rubies" of the mountains' name are actualy garnets, red semiprecious stones often foud in metamorphic ranges.
		Because they are so heavily glaciated and have such abundant water, the Rubies represent the classic mountain wilderness.
	www.nevadawilderness.org /northeast/ruby.htm (324 words)

	HIKING THE RUBY MOUNTAINS PREVIEW PAGE
		Boulder Lake Mountain Goats between Boulder and Steele Lake Steele Lake
		Bighorn Sheep Seitz Lake Hole in the Mountain
		Mountain Goat Above Boulder Lake Greys Lake Snow Banks Above Lost Lake
	www.rubymountains.org (529 words)

	Elko Convention and Visitors Authority, Elko Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Resting in the foothills of the Ruby Mountains just 17 miles southeast of Elko, the Horse Palace boasts an indoor arena where rodeos, horse shows and concerts take place year round.
		This national Scenic Byway serves as the gateway to the Lamoille Canyon Scenic Area and Ruby Mountain wilderness.
		The Ruby Mountains are reached via the Lamoille Canyon National Scenic Byway, 26 miles southeast of Elko on State Route 227.
	www.elkocva.com /attractions.shtml (1431 words)

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