MARCH 2002 NEWSLETTER

Peakfinder Updates
 Some months seem to go by without any noticeable changes to the website. However, information is added regularly as it comes to our attention. Much of it accumulates in the "Other Information" section of the different mountains and is not seen until a visitor happens to look at that particular mountain. If you have some time, browse around on the site and see what you can learn. Selecting peaks by major valley or name category is a good way to limit your search to a group of mountains that you might be interested in.

For example, on the Fortress Mountain page there is the story of the early attempts to climb this peak and of the first views of Mount Clemenceau. Mount Bosworth has information about the great avalanche of 1971. Mount Lady Macdonald has the story of Agnes Macdonald's trip though the Rockies on the cowcatcher of a locomotive in 1886, and the Pipestone Pass page includes the story of Tom Wilson's epic showshoe trip to have Christmas Dinner with his family in 1904. Mount James Walker tells about this outstanding individual who was named Calgary's "Citizen of the Century" in 1975.

We added a few unofficially named peaks this past month and there are now exactly 1500 mountains in the database. Let us know if you know of one that has been missed.

As well, let us know if you have any information that you think should be included with any of the mountains.

Please note that all of the previous newsletters have been archived and are available on the site. If you're interested in other esoteric lists, unusual mountain names, etc. look through the earlier issues. 


March's Unusual Canadian Rockies Name

TARPEIAN ROCK
The cliffs of this peak reminded Richard Cautley of the Interprovincial Boundary Survey of the cliff from which the criminals of ancient Rome were thrown from.

Enter "Tarpeian Rock" in the Finding Peaks search box to learn more about this mountain. 
Look who's honoured in the Canadian Rockies

MOUNT TUZO
One of the first mountains in the Canadian Rockies to be named in honour of a lady mountaineer is Mount Tuzo (Peak #7 in the Valley of the Ten Peaks). Miss Henrietta "Hettie" Tuzo was the first to climb this peak. A charter member of the Alpine Club of Canada, Miss Tuzo had climbed several peaks in the Rockies and Selkirks when she and guide Christian Kaufmann made the ascent in 1906. They climbed the couloir between Mount Bowlen and Tonsa and then crossed a snowfield behind Peaks Four, Five, and Six en route to the peak. During the descent they narrowly avoided an avalanche during which, "huge boulders plowed down over our tracks." The mountain was renamed in her honour in 1907. Hettie's son, John Tuzo Wilson, became a well known Canadian geologist, particularly in the area of continental drift and plate tectonics.

For information about Mount Tuzo enter the name in the Finding Peaks search box on the main page.
March's Esoteric List

MOUNTAINS OF THE HIGH ROCK RANGE
The High Rock Range forms the continental divide from Weary Creek Gap in the upper Highwood Valley south to the Crowsnest Pass.

Allison Peak, Mount Armstrong, Baril Peak, Beehive Mountain, Mount Bolton, Mount Cornwell, Courcelette Peak, Mount Domke, The Elevators, Mount Erris, Mount Etherington, Mount Farquhar, Mount Gass, Mount Holcroft, Mount Lyall, Mount MacLaren, Mount Muir, Mount O'Rourke, Phillipps Peak, Mount Pierce, Mount Scrimger, Mount Secord, Mount Strachan, Mount Tecumseh, Tornado Mountain, Mount Ward, Window Mountain

For information regarding any of these peaks enter the name in the "Finding Peaks" section on the front page.

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