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Hounds Tooth, The Bugaboos
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Hound's Tooth
Highest point
Elevation 2,824 m (9,265 ft)
Prominence 19 m (62 ft)
Geography
Location British Columbia, Canada
Parent range Purcell Mountains, Columbia Mountains
Topo map NTS 82K/10
Geology
Mountain type Granite
Climbing
First ascent 1930 Conrad Kain

Hound's Tooth is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Hound's Tooth is a rock pinnacle at the end of Marmolata Mountain's northeast ridge. Both mountains are Nunataks, sticking up from the middle of the Bugaboo Glacier. The Hounds' Tooth is composed of a coarse, fractured granite.

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