Cockscomb
Echo Ridge
Echo Peaks

Sat, Oct 9, 1999

With: Monty Blankenship

 Etymology
Cockscomb
Echo Ridge
Echo Peaks
 Story Photos / Slideshow Maps: 1 2 3 Profile
Cockscomb later climbed Sat, Sep 21, 2002
Echo Ridge later climbed Sat, Sep 21, 2002
Echo Peaks later climbed Sun, Aug 18, 2002

Echo Peaks (10,940 ft.)

Named by Wheeler Survey in 1879

Also Lake, Valley, Ridge

"Echo Peak and Echo Creek probably were named by the Wheeler Survey; both are on atlas sheet 56D, 1878-79. The peak remained singular until the fifth edition of the Mt. Lyell 30' map, 1922. The lake name first appeared on the Tuolumne Meadows 15' quad, 1956, and the valley name on the Merced Peak 15' quad, 1953."
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

A favorite term for places where reverberation is heard. The best-known features bearing the name in California are Echo Lake [El Dorado Co.], Echo Rock [Los Angeles Co.], and Echo Peak [Yosemite NP]; the last was named by the Wheeler Survey in 1879."
- Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names

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