This mountain range is called Mount Rose AKA Slide Mountain, it is Hwy 431 that takes you up to Lake Tahoe. Slide Mountain is well known for its rock slides. The timing of the name of the peak is unclear. It had already been named Slide Mountain prior to a destructive rock slide from its southeast face on May 30th, 1983 that sent massive debris down the Ophir Creek and onto the valley below. The event destroyed homes and even caused a fatality. However, it was named after previous rock slides years earlier, and was named based on those events. Slide Mountain is a 9,702-foot (2,957 m) peak in the Carson Range near Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada. At the bottom or the picture you can see Washoe Lake.
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