Mount Limbo

Mount Limbo is a 7,312-foot elevation (2,229 m) summit located in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.[2]

Mount Limbo
Mount Limbo (near center), Purgatory Peak (left)
Southwest aspect from Highway 447
Highest point
Elevation7,312 ft (2,229 m)[1][2]
Prominence252 ft (77 m)[3]
Parent peakPurgatory Peak (7,417 ft)[4]
Isolation0.61 mi (0.98 km)[4]
Coordinates40°20′23″N 119°16′54″W[5]
Geography
Mount Limbo is located in Nevada
Mount Limbo
Mount Limbo
Location in Nevada
Mount Limbo is located in the United States
Mount Limbo
Mount Limbo
Mount Limbo (the United States)
CountryUnited States of America
StateNevada
CountyPershing
Parent rangeSelenite Range
Great Basin Ranges
Topo mapUSGS Purgatory Peak
Geology
Age of rockCretaceous[6]
Mountain typeFault block[6]
Type of rockGranodiorite[6]
Climbing
Easiest routeclass 3 scrambling[4]

Description

Mount Limbo is the fourth-highest peak of the Selenite Range which is a subset of the Great Basin Ranges.[3] This peak is set in the Mount Limbo Wilderness Study Area which is owned by the Bureau of Land Management.[4] It is situated 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of line parent Purgatory Peak, 44 miles (71 km) west-northwest of the town of Lovelock, and north of Winnemucca Lake. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,100 feet (940 meters) above Poito Valley in approximately one mile (1.6 km). This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1965 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2]

Climate

Mount Limbo is set in the Great Basin Desert which has hot summers and cold winters.[7] The desert is an example of a cold desert climate as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool. Winter highs are generally above freezing, and winter nights are bitterly cold, with temperatures often dropping well below freezing.

Purgatory Peak (left) and Mt. Limbo (right)

See also

References
  1. United States Geological Survey topographical map - Purgatory Peak
  2. United States Board on Geographic Names (1965), Decisions on Names in the United States, Decision List 6503, Department of the Interior, p. 31
  3. "Mount Limbo, Nevada". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  4. "Limbo, Mount - 7,312' NV". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  5. "Mount Limbo". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  6. William J. Keith, Robert L. Turner, Donald Plouff, Mineral Resources of the Mount Limbo Wilderness Study Area, Pershing County, Nevada, USGS Bulletin 1726-A, U.S. Government Printing Office, (1986), p. A7
  7. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
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