{"id":2019,"date":"2017-05-11T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:18:30","slug":"murdock-mountain-nevada-elko-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.professorontherun.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"Murdock Mountain, Nevada, Elko County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For work I did a writing retreat to a friend&#8217;s off-grid remote cabin in the Murdock Mountain region of Nevada, Elko County. Not only did I get an incredible amount of work done revising my book manuscript, but I took a few hours to tag the local peak. I approached from southwest, up a jeep road. I hit the saddle west of the false west summit and the wind was just ripping over it. It was gorgeous though. Along the ridgeline up to the west summit, then down and up to the main summit &#8211; views for days. From there, I continued east for the descent and looped some other jeep roads back down. It was possibly the most remote adventure run I have done. I was the first person to sign the summit registry since 2015! Ha! I&#8217;ll go back and do the full ridgeline someday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/982143414\/embed\/5675fe4e59cc300ad9504d24028ef06c8d528032\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_2020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2020\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-40.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Looking up the jeep road to the summit ridgeline<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2021\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38-1024x656.jpg?resize=640%2C410&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?resize=1024%2C656&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?resize=768%2C492&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?resize=422%2C270&amp;ssl=1 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nevada-Writing-Retreat-38.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Just east and above the saddle that sits at the top of the jeep road, down and west of the false west summit<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2022\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a 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Not only did I get an incredible amount of work done revising my book manuscript, but I took a few hours to tag the local peak. I approached from southwest, up a jeep road. I hit the saddle west of the false west summit and the wind was just ripping over it. It was gorgeous though. 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