Jackass

Jackass Mountain 2006m Prominence: 316m This gentle summit of the northern Cascades is located east of Kanaka Bar. The name comes from before the building of the Cariboo Wagon Road when a jackass plunged from the old trail here to the Fraser 500, more or less straight down, fully loaded with a miners supplies; another version says a whole team of jackasses. The name first really applied to this stretch of trail, and the road(s) that were built along the same mountainside in later times, rather than to the peak which was of course unseen by those who coined and used the name.