The Red Tusk

The Red Tusk is a mountain in the Tantalus Range of the Pacific Ranges in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of Mount Tantalus and 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Cheekye.

The Red Tusk
Highest point
Elevation	2,147 m (7,044 ft)
Prominence	157 m (515 ft)
Coordinates	49°46′34.0″N 123°18′00.0″W
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Parent range	Tantalus Range
Topo map	NTS 92G/14
Climbing
First ascent	1914 Basil Darling; Allan Morkill

The Red Tusk gets its name from the reddish metamorphic rock that forms the mountain. It has a similar appearance to the smaller, but more famous Black Tusk in the Garibaldi Ranges further east.

References

The Red Tusk in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia.
"The Red Tusk". BC Geographical Names.

Pacific Ranges
Ranges	Bendor Britannia Bunster Cadwallader Calliope Camelsfoot Cantilever Caren Cayley Chilcotin Colville Conical Douglas Earle Edwards Fannin Fitzsimmons Franklyn Fraser Garibaldi Gastineau Georgina Koeye Lewis Lillooet Meager Namu Nicholl Niut North Shore Pantheon Pembroke Sir Harry Tantalus Tottenham Unwin Waddington Wharncliffe Whitemantle
Mountains	Akasik Alfred Alice Arthur Asperity Birkenhead Bishop The Black Tusk Blackcomb Blanshard Brandywine Breakenridge Brew Brew Burke Callaghan Capricorn Castle Towers Cauldron Cayley Cinder Cone Clarke Coquitlam Crevasse Crag Crickmer Crown Currie Cypress Devastator Dewdney Eagle Edge Elsay Fang Fee Fitzgerald Forefinger Frederick William Fromme Garibaldi Good Hope Grouse Helena Job Judge Howay Kinch Little Finger Little Ring Luna Mamquam Meager Merlon Middle Finger Monarch Monmouth Munday Nicomen One Eye Opal Cone Overill Pali Petlushkwohap Plinth Powder Price Pylon Pyroclastic Queen Bess Raleigh Red Tusk Ring Robie Reid Round Serratus Seymour Silverthrone Skihist Stein Somolenko Spearhead Table Tantalus Taseko Tatlow Tiedemann Tricouni Tuber Vic Victoria Vulcan's Thumb Waddington Wedge Wellington
Passes	Cayoosh Griswold McGillivray Pemberton Railroad Tyoax Wedge
Glaciers	Compton Névé Diamond Garibaldi Névé Ha-Iltzuk Homathko Klinaklini Mamquam Monarch Pashleth Powder Mountain Silverthrone Spearhead
Communities	List of communities in British Columbia
Parks	Clendinning Duffey Lake Garibaldi Mount Elphinstone Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Spruce Lake (South Chilcotin) Upper Lillooet Golden Ears Tantalus Mehatl Creek Birkenhead Lake Joffre Lakes Ts'il?os Bishop River Princess Louisa Marine Callaghan Nairn Falls Brandywine Falls Alice Lake Blackcomb Glacier Tetrahedron Stawamus Chief Murrin Mount Seymour Cypress Indian Arm Pinecone-Burke Shannon Falls Rolley Lake Sasquatch Big Creek Homathko Estuary Davis Lake

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