Coast Mountains
by Jon Burch Photography
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Coast Mountains
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Jon Burch Photography
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The Canadian Coast Mountains are approximately 990 miles long and average 190 miles in width. Their southern and southeastern boundaries are surrounded by the Fraser River and the Interior Plateau while its far northwestern edge is delimited by the Kelsall and Tatshenshini Rivers at the north end of the Alaska Panhandle, beyond which are the Saint Elias Mountains, and by Champagne Pass in the Yukon Territory. Covered in dense temperate rain forest on its western exposures, the range rises to heavily glaciated peaks, including the largest temperate-latitude ice fields in the world. It then tapers to the dry Interior Plateau on its eastern flanks, or to the subarctic boreal forest of the Skeena Mountains and Stikine Plateau.
The Coast Mountains are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. They contain some of British Columbia's highest mountains. Mount Waddington, northeast of the head of Knight Inlet with an elevation of 13,186 feet, is the highest mountain of the Coast Mountains and the highest that lies entirely within British Columbia.
This beautiful Tantalus Mountain Range on the Sea to Sky Highway was photographed in British Columbia just north of Vancouver.
Image copyright 2014 Jon Burch Photography
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September 22nd, 2014
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