To log this cache, look up to Slide Mountain at GZ. Looking at the mountain, why do you think that the mountain is a lighter shade of gray on the South side of the mountain? What may have caused it? Also, include in your log, a picture showing you with a sign, with your Geoname and the date. Your face does not have to be in the photo.
Slide Mountain formed over 100 milion years ago underground. Five million years ago, the Sierra Nevada mountains started their uplift. Erosion by glaciers shaped the mountains to what they look like today. Uplift by faults and earthquakes are still making the mountains taller today.
Slide Mountain is notable for its recurring large landslides on its southeastern side, which leave the slopes barren and whitish due to exposed granite rock and decomposed granite sand. These slide zones are clearly visible from Washoe Valley to the southeast.
The most recent major slide occurred on May 30, 1983, when debris flowed into Price Lake, causing a slurry of granite and forest debris to cascade down the canyon, damaging infrastructure, destroying homes, and causing fatalities and injuries. This event was amplified by an exceptionally high winter snowpack of 237% above normal, which contributed significantly to the slide. The debris flow was about 30 feet high in the canyon, with a volume of approximately 1.4 million cubic yards and involved around 7 million gallons of water from Price Lake.
Rising about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) above Reno, Slide Mountain is a prominent feature in the skyline. It can be easily hiked to the summit via ski trails and a maintenance road, especially from the Mount Rose Summit Campground near State Route 341. The Mount Rose Ski Tahoe resort is located on Slide Mountain, though despite common confusion, Mount Rose itself is higher and situated several miles northwest.
The mountain's summit hosts numerous communications towers that provide vital television, radio, emergency response, and amateur communication services for Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe.
Information provided by Wikipedia, World Water Network and the Reno Gazette Journal (photos). Artificial Intellegence was used in the writing of the description for this cache.
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