Hikers give USFS static over radio plan for Jobs Peak
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal
A proposal by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest to install a new radio repeater has raised the ire of hikers who say it would be a blight on an iconic Nevada peak.
The proposal calls for a 20-foot tower on a five-foot-high metal building on top of Job’s Peak, a 10,633-foot-tall peak located eight miles southwest of Minden.
The solar-powered repeater would improve reliability of radio communications for Forest Service workers in the Carson Range, which towers over Carson Valley to the northeast and Lake Tahoe to the northwest.