Ruby Mountains

The Ruby Mountains rise above northeast Nevada near the city of Elko, and nearest the Spring Creek community where my folks built the family getaway. Inside Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Lamoille Canyon cuts through the range with dramatic peaks and rivers, ornamented with "quaking aspen" trees named for how their leaves flutter in the wind. This short lyrical landscape film was an excuse to set one of my longtime favorite musical works (the sunrise passage from Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé") to aerial cinematography, at my favorite place on Earth. Drones aren't permitted in National Parks, but under the jurisdiction of the USDA, National Forests do embrace them, and Lamoille Canyon is that rare example of a National Forest crowned with high peaks, jagged terrain, and diverse landscapes rivaling any National Park in the United States.
This update to my original film adds an epilogue shot three years later, set to a movement from Bach's Goldberg Variations. Starting from 06:12, you'll see the result of a reckless accident that happened just four months after all the preceding footage of Lamoille Canyon: a once-paradise that will take decades to recover how it looked in this film's first half.
Also at: vimeo.com/hpmoon/ruby
Filmed and edited by H. Paul Moon on May 26 & 28, 2018 (w/epilogue in May & December 2021)

[@brianfairweather7298]

Absolutely beautiful! Great video!

[@nathanielavoures1596]

These mountains are so huge and are our youngest mountain ranges in america!

[@nightshade8958]

Haven't listened to this in a while... Ravel lived in a different universe than us.

[@penttijuvonen3257]

Very nice place! Thank you for this video😃🇫🇮

[@mojorisen1295]

Ironic that you mentioned the fire in the canyon started by a couple of locals firing their guns off at the closed firing range before running off. Your kinda lucky that your drone didn’t experience a malfunction and start a fire as well, but. Great shots anyhow, right?