Silver Peak
Sharktooth Peak
Cockscomb

Sun, Oct 9, 2005

With: Rick Kent

 Etymology
Silver Peak
Sharktooth Peak
Cockscomb
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Cockscomb (10,719 ft.)

Named by BGN in 1969

"This descriptive name is now applied to what was called 'Sharktooth Peak' on the Kaiser Peak 15' map. That name has been moved about 1.6 miles northeast to the peak it should have been on all along. (BGN decision, 1969.)"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

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