Braddock Peak

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Braddock Peak is a mountain summit in the Never Summer Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The Script error: No such module "convert". peak is located in State Forest State Park, Script error: No such module "convert". south-southwest (bearing 201°) of Cameron Pass in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.[1][2]

Mountain

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It is named after Dr. William A. Braddock (1929–2003), Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1958 to 1994. Dr. Braddock and his students geologically mapped over Script error: No such module "convert". of the northern Front Range, including the summit named after him. He was the principal author of The Geologic Map of Rocky Mountain National Park. Following his retirement, Dr. Braddock taught the lay public about the geology in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.[3]

Descriptions of hiking routes in this area that predate adoption of the Braddock Peak name refer to this summit as Point 11,960.[4]

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Mt. Mahler (center), Braddock Peak (right)

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