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Barrel Sides
Barrel Sides Peak 2406m Prominence: 216m Located west of the Kitnayakwa-Burnie divide. Highest of a group of precipitous rock spires on a ridge west of Mount Felber. The other towers are documented here, rather than as separate peaks, in order to avoid crowding the maps. Barrel Sides itself is a long class 3 and 4 rock climb from the col east of Mt Utica.
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Blackberry
Blackberry Peak 2294m Prominence: 795m Located east of the head of the Zymoetz River, just north of Blackberry Creek. There are two points with spot elevations of 2294 m on the TRIM map; the summit is here placed on the western of these (because it has a larger contour circle), but it is unclear which is actually higher. To the north is a huge glacier, leading up to within 500 feet of the summit.
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Bosnia
Bosnia Peak 2272m Prominence: 282m This peak is right at the eastern edge of the large glacier at the head of Milk Creek.
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Breccia
Breccia Butte 2390m Prominence: 65m Highest of several steep, flattish topped rock peaks on the ridge running NE of Pyrite Peak. Rock is loose. This and the larger but slightly lower peak 250 metres to the southwest were climbed by Dick Culbert and Glenn Woodsworth as part of a traverse from Pyrite Peak to Sob Spire.
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Caribou
Caribou Mountain 1976m Prominence: 726m This is the high point of an alpine area south of the Zymoetz River and north of Serb Creek. Referred to as Caribou Mountain by Blix. Trail up from the south. Name used by Blix
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Croatia
Croatia Peak 2212m Prominence: 242m
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Eagle
Eagle Peak 1949m Prominence: 129m This peak is accessable from the Starr Creek Cabin. This peak is in the center of the western half of the Telkwa Range. It lies east of Elliot Creek. Like many peaks in the area, it has two summits of almost identical heights, the western one being 1949m and the eastern being 1948m.
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EF42
EF42 1805m Prominence: 220m
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EG69
EG69 2155m Prominence: 105m
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EH51
EH51 2355m Prominence: 35m A steep rock tower, one of the Breccia Buttes on the ridge NE of Pyrite Peak
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EH59
EH59 2150m Prominence: 240m
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FF33
FF33 2011m Prominence: 81m A flat topped peak on the ridge 4 km east of Elliott Creek.
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FH08
FH08 2410m Prominence: 160m Located W of the head of Fubar Glacier
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FH14
FH14 2544m Prominence: 114m
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FH15
FH15 2530m Prominence: 45m
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FH43
FH43 2430m Prominence: 85m
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Fubar
Fubar Peak 2450m Prominence: 160m This is the most northeastern peak along the ridge.
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GI61
GI61 2127m Prominence: 357m
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GI73
GI73 2127m Prominence: 237m
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GJ40
GJ40 2169m Prominence: 399m Located 3.8 km SW of Ventura Peak
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HG45
HG45 1455m Prominence: 467m This is the tree covered bump lying east of Caribou Creek.
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HI07
HI07 2072m Prominence: 382m
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Ingsoc
Ingsoc Peak 1876m Prominence: 364m From the book Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. Ingsoc is an abbreviation of English Socialist Party. Part of the Smithers literary theme, Orwells ideas are discussed at Mountain Eagle books.
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Kappa
Kappa Peak 2399m Prominence: 329m Lcated S of the ridge of Preterition peaks Named Kappa Peak by the 1st ascent party in 1981. The name is in CAJ 1982.
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Kosovo
Kosovo Peak 1735m Prominence: 445m
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Lambda
Lambda Peak 2385m Prominence: 295m Highest summit N of the head of Nilah Creek. Named by the 1981 expedition in keeping with the Greek-letter theme started by parties in the 1950s. Name is in CAJ 1982, page 70.
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Leacock
Leacock Peak 2089m Prominence: 734m Located east of the Howson Range, 3 km north of Tom George Lakes, and just east of the Burnie-Telkwa River Pass. This peak is a high rocky peak with a small glacier or icefield on its northern slopes, which drains into Elliott Creek. Named after Canadian author Stephen Leacock, according to the literary theme of the area. He was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England but at age 6 he and his family moved to Canada, settling on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the shores of Lake Simcoe. Best known for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), one of the most famous examples of Canadian humor. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock writes in the introduction: Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels.
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Legate
Legate Peak 2469m Prominence: 1407m Located about 10 km east of the Yellowhead highway. Highest peak in the Mount Sir Robert massif; at the head of Little Oliver Creek. The peak is marked with a spot height of 8094 feet on 1:50,000 maps. It has a sizeable glacier running east of the peak. Could possibly be climbed from the road up Legate Creek, only 6 km away. Named for the creek at which it is the head.
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Lonesome
Lonesome Crag 2390m Prominence: 80m Located at the very east end of the Polemic ridge. This is a rocky peak at the end of the ridge. East of here the ridge drops very steeply for 4000 feet to the swamps north of Burnie Lake. Named by the first ascent party in 1962.
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Miligit
Miligit Peak 2306m Prominence: 561m Located just north of the Howson Range, 1.4 km SW of the head of Milliget Creek. This peak and equally high 2306 to W (276 m prominence) are the highest point S of this pass and N of Telkwa Pass. On the 1:50,000 map the peak is difficult to pick out, it is glaciated almost to the summit on both sides.
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Blix
Mount Blix 1934m Prominence: 184m This is the highest point in Caribou north. Named for Einar Blix author of Trails To Timberline in West Central British Columbia, the standard guidebook for this area.
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Felber
Mount Felber 2630m Prominence: 180m Located on the ridge just north of Howson Peak. This is a beautiful and impressive triangular rock spire. This peak is on the main divide. This peak sits at the head of a long smooth glacier that flows to a small lake and then into the head of Burnie Lake. Named after Joe Felber, a prospector in the area, who climbed some other peaks. Alternate name is Kitnayakwa Peak, named after the river. This is a name in the Tsimshin language, and this peak falls on the boundary between Wetsuweten and Tsimshian nations.
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Orwell
Mount Orwell 1864m Prominence: 300m Named after George Orwell, who wrote Ninteen Eighty Four. This is part of the literary tradition of the people of Smithers, discussing George Orwells book at places such as Mountain Eagle Books.
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Newspeak
Newspeak Peak 1899m Prominence: 419m Located south of Legate peak along the ridge. Part of the George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four theme of the area, to reflect literary interest in Smithers. Newspeak was the new politically correct language.
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Nogold
Nogold Peak 1411m Prominence: 306m Located just 2 km north of Nogold Creek. This peak is completely covered in trees, with a flat top that would be difficult to find if you climbed it.
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Outcast
Outcast Peak 2435m Prominence: 305m Located on the main Howson Spine running N from Howson Peak. The peak has a steep rocky western face. There is a small butress on this face. It drops into Nilah Creek. The east side of the peak only sticks up a 100 m or so above the glacier. This peak was originally named Outcast peak, by Glenn Woodsworth and party, who made many first ascents in this area in 1962. According to Glenn, it is documented as such in Culberts Guide and the CAJ. It is also referred to as Telkwa peak by Christoph Dietzfelbinger, who guides in the area and operates the Bernie Glacier Chalet. So which name to use The peak sits at the head of the Telkwa River, but its not in the Telkwa Range. OUtcast seems the better choice: it is descriptive (the peak appears isolated) and it avoids confusion with the Telkwa Range to the east.
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Perdition
Perdition Peak 2623m Prominence: 653m Highest peak in the northern Howson Range. Perdition means The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting. Perdition is a Calvinist doctrine claiming that God chose not to designate those who would be damned, positively determining only the elect. This name is no doubt in keeping with the Fubar Glacier. (Fubar means frightful, terrible.) (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition).
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Polemic
Polemic Peak 2579m Prominence: 369m Located on the first major ridge going east from the main divide. This is a rocky peak on the first subridge going eastward from the main divide. The peak has a broad tributary glacier flowing northeast to meet the main glacier. The glacier sits between the north ridge and the east ridge of the peak.
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Pyrite
Pyrite Peak 2466m Prominence: 416m Highest point on the the long ridge which lies NE of Mt Felber. Rocky summit about 800 feet above glacier. Named by the first ascent party for the abundant yellow pyrite (FeS2) found on the first ascent.
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Redemption
Redemption Peak 2592m Prominence: 527m Located north of the Fubar Glacier, on the northern ridge of the Howson Range. This is a very steep rocky peak, which would be difficult to climb from any angle. On the 1:50,000 map it is located north of the Fubar Glacier. Redemption is a term in Christianity synonymous with salvation; or delivery from sins. The name is in keeping with the Fubar theme of the area.
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Ruination
Ruination Peak 2290m Prominence: 80m Highest point on Ruination Ridge. The FA party traversed this summit on the way to Tattered Tower.
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Scatton
Scatton Peak 2084m Prominence: 479m Located north of the head of Scatton Creek and 4 km east of Elliott Creek.
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Serb
Serb Peak 2317m Prominence: 1432m Located 2 km S of the head of Serb Creek, and 2 km N of Milk Creek. This is the highest peak in the Serb Region. It is a heavily glaciated peak, steep on all sides. It could be reached from Serb Creek, or perhaps from Milk Creek, but both approaches would be steep. Peak is named for the creek at which it is the head.
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Sinclair
Sinclair Peak 1825m Prominence: 75m This is the high point of the Sinclair Plateau. The Sinclair Plateau trail comes up from the logging roads on the east of the plateau. There is also a cabin right at treeline.
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Sob
Sob Spire 2140m Prominence: 35m A striking and very steep rock tower in the Howson Range, the easternmost of the Breccia Buttes.
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Specular
Specular Peak 2370m Prominence: 60m A small, steep rock peak west of Polemic Peak.
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Tattered
Tattered Tower 2230m Prominence: 100m A steep, dark rock tower, southeast of Ruination Peak. Rock is rotten. Named by the first ascent party for the shattered rock in the area.
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Tauw
Tauw Peak 2498m Prominence: 348m The western summit on northernmost ridge of the Howson Range
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Tom George
Tom George Mountain 1772m Prominence: 282m Located at the east end of the long E ridge of Howson Peak. This is a rocky and fairly regular triangular peak, 4 km N of Burnie L. Marked with a spot height of 1772m on trim maps. It is right at the end of the ridge. This peak is referred to unofficially as Tom George, but it is not ideal, because Tom George lake is on the opposite side of the valley.
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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb Peak 2330m Prominence: 100m A circular summit north of Felber. On the west ridge of this peak is a striing rock tower, Tabernacle Tower. It is documented here, rather than as a separate peak, in order to avoid crowding the maps.
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Treasure
Treasure Mountain 1918m Prominence: 1173m Located 8 km NW of the corner in the Zymoetz River. This mountain is the highest mountain in a long ridge called the OK Range which extends east-west between the Zymoetz River and Kleanze Creek. The theme of the peaks in this area is based on Treasure Island, written in 1883 by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Tsai
Tsai Peak 1870m Prominence: 500m This peak is located at the west end of an isolated alpine area north of the Telkwa river between Tsai Creek and Sinclair Creek. The 1:50K shows a small glacier just east of the peak, and extensive meadows with small lakes.
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Ventura
Ventura Peak 2266m Prominence: 376m This is a heavily glaciated peak in the Bulkley Ranges at the head of Serb Creek. It was first climbed as part of a 3 day backpacking trip along the Copper (Zymoetz) River. Named by the first ascent party for the Ventura Syndicate, a prospecting venture that he was working for.
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Westview
Westview Peak 1832m Prominence: 132m At the western end of the Dennis plateau.
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Zeta
Zeta Peak 2470m Prominence: 100m Named by the 1981 expedition in keeping with the Greek-letter theme started by parties in the 1950s. Name is in CAJ 1982, page 70.
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Sinclair Cabin
Sinclair Cabin This cabin is part way up the Sinclair Plateau trail, just before treeline.
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Starr Creek Cabin
Starr Creek Cabin Located at the head of Starr Creek, in the isolated patch of trees. . The cabin is designed for 8 people. You will find: [pre] Propane stove and propane tank Woodstove and fire wood Pots, plates and utensils Foam mattresses Fire extinguisher First aid kit [/pre] Maintenance fee: $12.00 / person / night The cabin is booked once full payment is made -if the cabin is booked for less than 8 people, it is still possible for others to book it. It is recommended to consult people who first made reservations. The cabin is considered full once reservations have been made for 8 people. Booking: Valhalla Pure Outfitters 1122 Main Street Smithers Tel (250) 847 0200 History: The Nordic club built this cabin (designed by Win Hobson) in 1991 and has maintained it since then, thanks to several groups of volunteers. An extensive report by the Bulkley Valley Outdoor Recreation in PDF dated June 2007 describes problems with motorized users, and plans to deal with it. See Changing Use Patterns of the Starr creek.
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Sinclair Plateau Parking
Sinclair Plateau Parking This spot is located at a landing at a fork at km 1.9 on the Sinclair Plateau road. It is marked as the trailhead on the Bulkley Valley Backpackers brochure, which says that there is a deactivated bridge just beyond. So we assume you must walk up the road from here to the actual high trailhead at 3400 feet.
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Sinclair Plateau Trailhead
Sinclair Plateau Trailhead This parking area is a large landing at the end of the road. The trail goes off the west end.
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Burnie Glacier Chalet
Burnie Glacier Chalet Howson Range, near Smithers BC. Comfortable mountain chalet with helicopter access. Ski mountaineering - steep and easy, trees, glaciers, and ice ridges. Heating and cooking on an original Amish woodstove. Solid wood custom built furniture. Fully equipped ski shop with spare parts. Wine cellar. All you need to bring is your ski mountaineering equipment and day packs. Sleeping: Lodge has beds and bedding for 11 guests in four bedrooms. Toilet: Three stall solid timber composting outhouse. Other Facilities: Wood fired cedar sauna. Radio phone for in and outgoing calls. Full weather station. If necessary, skis, skins, ski crampons, avalanche beacons, probes and shovels will be provided at no extra cost if necessary. There is internet access so we can make an avalanche and weather forecast every day.