On a recent summer excursion, we stopped to look at this Trails West Marker that I had not seen before. What caught my attention is that Benjamin Ruggles inferred in 1859 that there were three passes. Most historical data and maps that I have examined over the years indicate only one pass named Nobles along the trail near the base of Lassen Peak.
It is interesting note that traffic on the Nobles Trail between Susanville and the Sacramento Valley had greatly diminished during the late 1850s. Though in the fall of 1859, for a two week period, 375 individuals, in sixty-seven wagons, along 100,000 head of livestock used the Nobles route into Shasta County.