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Crowfoot Mountain  Alberta   #1685
Ranges: North America Ranges / Rocky Mountains / Canadian Rockies / Continental Ranges / Park Ranges / Wapta Icefield

Height: 3055 m -> 10023 feet
Prominence?: 355 m  
Line Parent?: Mount Olive (4.3 km away, at bearing 248 degrees)
Greater Parent: Mount Gordon (6.0 km away)

Location:   51.62540,-116.43435     51:37:31, -116:26:04   11U 539155 5719527 (6 km S of Bow Lake). (26 km N of Field). NTS Mapsheet: 082.N.09   AreaCode: FL16/GE23
First Ascent: 1950 E. Cromwell, G. Engelhard (Cromwell)
Crowfoot Mountain from near Bow Glacier Falls
4 km W of Bow Peak, 3 km SSW of the outlet of Bow Lake. The mountain has three distinct summits, the southerly being the highest.

Name Notes: Named in 1959 after the glacier on its northeast face, which until one lobe fell off in the early 1900s, had three lobes and was shaped like a corvid's toe.

Trip Reports within 1 km
20 null Crowfoot - Northwest Glacier Route Graeme Pole

Comments

Paper Maps
1:70000Bow Lake & Saskatchewan Crossing Gem Trek
1:250000Banff National Park Canada: Map and Guide in One Gem Trek
1:400000Best of The Icefields Parkway Gem Trek
1:400000Canadian Rockies (Explorer's Map and Guide) Gem Trek
1:600000Southwest Alberta Southeast B.C. Explorer's Map (Road Map) Gem Trek
 

Subject Photos   View Thumbnails
8 Crowfoot Mountain and the Wapta Icefields Eric Coulthard
6 Crowfoot Mountain from near Bow Glacier Falls David Wasserman
5 West Face of Crowfoot Mountain Eric Coulthard
4 Crowfoot Mountain - North Summit Serguei Okountsev

Placename Photos
12 Wapta Icefield from the North Eric Coulthard
10 Bow Lake and the Wapta Icefield, with Mount Rhondda David Wasserman
7 Bow Lake From Shoreline David Wasserman
2 Crowfoot Glacier Kevin Altheim