Twin Peaks
Kettle Peak

Sun, May 24, 2009

With: Tom Becht

 Etymology
Twin Peaks
Kettle Peak
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Twin Peaks (10,479 ft.)

Named by USGS in 1912

"Probably named by the USGS; the name appears on the second Tehipite 30' map, 1912."
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

"It has long been customary to designate paired geographic features as Twins. California has more than two hundred places so named, chiefly Twin Peaks and Twin Lakes, but also numerous Twin Rocks, Meadows, Buttes, Sisters, Springs, and Sloughs."
- Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names

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