CLIMBING MOUNT ROSE

Mount Rose is located just east of the north end of Lake Tahoe.  The elevation is between 8,000 and 10,000 feet with an average of eight feet of snow in the higher elevations.
   There is about twenty square miles of great riding in the Mount Rose area.  So gambling isn't the only thing to do in the area.
  From the first appearance, the slopes of Mount Rose looks like it easily could be climbed, but the deep snow makes it difficult to power up the mountainside to the microwave towers perched near the summit, but the open sidehill allows riders to cut a trail across the slope.
   On first attempt, the riders work hard to reach the narrow trail halfway up the slope that leads to the towers. But reaching the trail proves to be much easier than holding the trail.
   At first, trying to make it thru the freshly fallen powder to the micrwave towers was just for fun-A stab at the slope to see if it's possible, but the snow is to deep and the slope to steep. Still, the snowmobilers persist.  Each attempt nets them about ten more yards, as each rider follows in the previous trail, cutting into the slope and packing a lane, still several hundred yards away from the top, but eventually, when the snow sets up they will conquer the hill.
   You can't go everywhere you want...especially when it snows.  You have to wait until the freash snow sets up, and then you can go about anywhere...until it snows again.