Logistics
Trailheads
Southern trailhead: Harrison Go on Nationwide Forest Street 113. This street is paved many of the means from the west however turns to well-maintained gravel close to the highest. From the east it’s gravel all the best way from Ruby Valley Street. There’s a gravel pullout on the prime the place you could possibly park a automobile.
Northern trailhead: Street’s Finish Trailhead is a big and in style parking space on the finish of paved Lamoille Canyon Street. This space is in style with day hikers and fills up on summer season weekends. You’ll be able to depart a automobile right here. There’s a pit rest room.
Which Course?
Except you’re going for a pace file, most individuals hike the Ruby Crest Path from south to north. This protects essentially the most scenic part, the southern half, for the top. It’s barely extra uphill this fashion, however there’s numerous climbing in each instructions.
Shuttle
As it is a level to level hike with distant trailheads (particularly Harrison Go), you’ll most likely wish to arrange a automobile shuttle. The best means is to rent one of many licensed shuttle drivers within the space.
We labored with Mia and Henry of hiddenlakeoutfitters.com and extremely suggest them. Mia was even versatile sufficient to vary dates on the final minute once we had automobile bother on the best way.
Maps and Navigation
The AllTrails app has an entry for the Ruby Crest Path (you’ll must pay the small charge for offline obtain, as you received’t have service on the path). We used a mix of the AllTrails app and this GPX file from Caltopo imported into GaiaGPS.
Right here’s the AllTrails map:
Climate
Anticipate typical summer season mountain climate with potential for decent afternoons and chilly nights. Although we had completely clear skies, it’s at all times sensible to examine the forecast. The northern part specifically is above treeline on the ridge for fairly awhile, and can be a nasty place to get caught in a storm (particularly {an electrical} storm).
