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Little Antelope Summit
This is a forested summit on US50
between Ely and Eureka, connecting the Jakey and
Newark Valeys. Like all the US50 summits, there is
are two signs on top. There is very little traffic
and very few, if any noticeable rumble strips. It
seems many of them have been paved over.
From East. On the straight away through
Jakey Valley the mountains behind the next climb
to the west, look like staggered pages of a
big book, lying on its side. The view is partially
hidden by lower hills - it's flat and its far, it
may be hot and it may be windy, but it's not high. A few turns through a small ravine lined canyon
lead to the next forested summit. Several hundred
feet below the top is a dirt road turnoff to
Illipah Reservoir and several mining town ruins.
There are nice undeveloped campsites on top of the
pass, but no view.  clouds acting rather peculiar, on the way to Little Antelope Summit From West. (also described upwards). On
my out-and-back dayride I had to get back to one
of the aforementioned campsites on top of this
pass. After all those miles in the heat, just
gaining the first several hundred feet of altitude
on the straight road through Newark Valley was the
quite a bit of work. After that the road entered a
low canyon and blocked the strong southerly wind,
the rest of the climb was more pleasant, and on
top a nice cool spot was waiting. Dayride. COMPLETElY PAVED: ( < Robinson
Pass| Pete's
Summit > )  |
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