Peak of political incorrectness in Alpine County?
A Google Earth satellite image of Jeff Davis Peak in Alpine County.
By Mike Moffitt, San Francisco Chronicle
Jefferson Davis never set foot in California or Nevada, but two peaks — one in each state — bear the name of the president of the Confederacy.
One, the third-highest mountain in Nevada at 12,771 feet high, towers over Great Basin National Park. The other, 444 miles to the west, is a little known and rarely climbed volcanic plug near Lake Tahoe in Alpine County.
The latter’s rugged, near-vertical slopes seem out of place with the surrounding terrain. They look like they belong in Arizona’s Monument Valley.