Citadel Peaks East
This image was taken from aboard the wooden MV International, a diesel-powered passenger vessel, built at Goat Haunt in 1927. It plies its trade up and down Upper Waterton Lake, with a current carrying capacity of 200.
On the right is are the Citadel Peaks East (2,133m) and on the left is a ridgeline that leads up to Mount Cleveland which is off-shot to the left. These mountains are part of the Livingston Range which sits primarily in Glacier National Park in Montana, and in the extreme south-eastern section of the Canada's province of British Columbia. The range is 58 km long and 45 km wide. Over 15 summits exceed 2,700m above sea level, with the highest, Kintla Peak, at 3,079m.
While these elevations are not particularly high for North American mountains, they are high compared to the roughly 1,200m elevation of the nearby valleys, making for particularly dramatic peaks.
The Livingston Range was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of Pre-Cambrian rocks 4.8 km thick, 80 km wide and 260 km long over newer rocks of the Cretaceous Period.
Waterton Lake is composed of two bodies of water, connected by a shallow channel known locally as the Bosporus. The two parts are referred to as Lower Waterton Lake, and Upper Waterton Lake, the latter of which is crossed by the Canada-United States international border.
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park was created by the US and Canada in 1932. In 1979, UNESCO established the Waterton Biosphere Reserve to protect the diverse habitats including prairie grasslands, aspen parkland, sub-alpine forests, alpine tundra and freshwater fens that surround the lake. Later, in 1995, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
I was staying in West Glacier, MT., so drove to Waterton in Canada to take the boat to Goat Haunt (back in Montana) and then spent most of the day hiking north up the side of the lake back to my car at Waterton, before again crossing the international border back to West Glacier. That became impossible for a non-North American after 9/11. I'm not sure whether the situation has subsequently changed.
Scanned from a negative.
Citadel Peaks East
This image was taken from aboard the wooden MV International, a diesel-powered passenger vessel, built at Goat Haunt in 1927. It plies its trade up and down Upper Waterton Lake, with a current carrying capacity of 200.
On the right is are the Citadel Peaks East (2,133m) and on the left is a ridgeline that leads up to Mount Cleveland which is off-shot to the left. These mountains are part of the Livingston Range which sits primarily in Glacier National Park in Montana, and in the extreme south-eastern section of the Canada's province of British Columbia. The range is 58 km long and 45 km wide. Over 15 summits exceed 2,700m above sea level, with the highest, Kintla Peak, at 3,079m.
While these elevations are not particularly high for North American mountains, they are high compared to the roughly 1,200m elevation of the nearby valleys, making for particularly dramatic peaks.
The Livingston Range was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of Pre-Cambrian rocks 4.8 km thick, 80 km wide and 260 km long over newer rocks of the Cretaceous Period.
Waterton Lake is composed of two bodies of water, connected by a shallow channel known locally as the Bosporus. The two parts are referred to as Lower Waterton Lake, and Upper Waterton Lake, the latter of which is crossed by the Canada-United States international border.
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park was created by the US and Canada in 1932. In 1979, UNESCO established the Waterton Biosphere Reserve to protect the diverse habitats including prairie grasslands, aspen parkland, sub-alpine forests, alpine tundra and freshwater fens that surround the lake. Later, in 1995, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
I was staying in West Glacier, MT., so drove to Waterton in Canada to take the boat to Goat Haunt (back in Montana) and then spent most of the day hiking north up the side of the lake back to my car at Waterton, before again crossing the international border back to West Glacier. That became impossible for a non-North American after 9/11. I'm not sure whether the situation has subsequently changed.
Scanned from a negative.