#crowsnest mountain

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Forest (No. 330)

Waterton National Park Viewpoint, AB

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Crowsnest Mountain in Canadian Rockies

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Crowsnest Mountain, Canada - by Stacy William Head

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Crowsnest Mountain

This lonely peak in Alberta, Canada is a Klippe. It is formed by the huge Lewis Thrust system, a major fault in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US. That fault brings older rocks from deep up and sets them atop Cretaceous aged sedimentary rocks. At this site, the rocks lifted up by the Lewis Thrust are sediments formed in the Devonian and Mississippian eras, when ocean levels were high and sediments were deposited on the continents. A Klippe is a solitary mountain where the rocks are “out of order”. In this mountain, older rocks sit atop younger rocks. A huge thrust fault sheet once covered this entire area. Today most of the giant sheet of rocks that once sat at this site has been eroded away and it is instead found far to the west. Crowsnest Mountain is the tiny bit of this thrust sheet that hasn’t yet eroded away, and the Lewis Thrust can be found on the mountain’s face close to the tree line. That fault is the single layer or single plane that separates the older rocks above from the younger rocks below.

-JBB

Image credits: http://bit.ly/2AUC1sM http://bit.ly/2hQSkDb

Reference: http://www.summitpost.org/crowsnest-mountain/305340

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Forest (No. 329)

Crowsnest Lake, AB (three pics)

Crowsnest Pass, AB (seven pics)

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Crowsnest Highway, AB/BC

The Crowsnest Highway is an east-west highway in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. It stretches 1,161 km (721 mi) across the southern portions of both provinces, from Hope, British Columbia to Medicine Hat, Alberta, providing the shortest highway connection between the Lower Mainland and southeast Alberta through the Canadian Rockies. Mostly two-lane, the highway was officially designated in 1932, mainly following a mid-19th-century gold rush trail originally traced out by an engineer named Edgar Dewdney. It takes its name from the Crowsnest Pass, the location at which the highway crosses the Continental Divide between British Columbia and Alberta.

In British Columbia, the highway is entirely in mountainous regions and is also known as the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. The western-most segment between the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5A is locally known as the Hope-Princeton Highway, and passes by the site of the Hope Slide. In Alberta, the terrain is initially mountainous, before smoothing to foothills and eventually generally flat prairie in the vicinity of Pincher Creek. The highway forms part of the Red Coat Trail and the CANAMEX Corridor from Highway 2 near Fort Macleod to Highway 4 in Lethbridge. Many sections of the highway were built by Japanese labour while they were interned during the Second World War, including sections like the Hope-Princeton. This history has been preserved at a heritage marker at Sunshine Valley, which was the largest internment camp in Canada.

Source: Wikipedia

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Waterton National Park Viewpoint, AB

The Chief Mountain Border Crossing connects the town of Babb, Montana, with Pincher Creek, Alberta, on the Canada–US border. Montana Highway 17 on the American side joins Alberta Highway 6 on the Canadian side, creating the only road border crossing within the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Poker Creek–Little Gold Creek and this crossing are the only ones closed in winter.

The idea for this road link, which would reduce the connection between Waterton Lakes National Park (Canada) and Glacier National Park (U.S.) by about 48 kilometres (30 mi), was suggested as early as 1915. To provide employment during the Great Depression, relief work camps operated from late 1932 to 1935, by which time the highway was almost complete. Called the Kennedy Creek Cut Off or Kennedy Creek-Belly River Road during construction, the agreed name of The Chief Mountain International Highway was suggested by Herbert Legg of Canada Customs. No formal ceremony marked the opening in June 1936.

The US highway was built over 13 months between the fall of 1934 and the summer of 1936 by Montana state employees and contractors.

The Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters, constructed in 1939, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 2008.

Source: Wikipedia