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.
Please don’t crush the beauty of Job’s Peak and the mountains by adding a tower! Find another way to communicate better and leave Mother Nature’s beautiful mountain tops ALONE! PULEEEEZZZZE! Are the Forest Service becoming mechanical nightmares???