MARCH, 2003 NEWSLETTER

Peakfinder Updates

We enjoy collecting stories related to the Canadian Rockies and placing them on the website. This month we have added the tragic story of an airplane crash in the Bull Creek Hills (not really a mountain but a high, well-known feature in the Highwood Valley) that resulted in the death of the pilot after heroic efforts by a passenger aboard the aircraft to go for help and by a rescue party to evacuate the pilot. Thanks to Dorothy Reimer who researched and submitted this story.

We continue to find peaks that somehow were missed when the database was first established. Thanks to Dave McRitchie for letting us know about some fairly recently named mountains in southeastern British Columbia. Thanks Dave for the photos as well.

References to Tim Helmer's spectacular mountain top panoramas at www.canadasmountains.com are now noted in the the information related to twenty-nine of the peaks in the database. Try Fairview Mountain as an example. Thanks to Tim for a number of photos that have been added to the website as well. We continue to add photos from the collection of Rienk Lakeman. Have a look at one of the most recent, an outstanding shot of Mount Forbes.

If you have a favourite mountain photo or any information about the peaks of the Canadian Rockies that you would like included in Peakfinder please contact <dave@peakfinder.com>.

Please note that all of the previous newsletters have been archived and are available on the site.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. browse through the earlier issues. 


March's Unusual Canadian Rockies Name

SLEEPER MOUNTAIN
This peak in the Fraser Valley was named after a so called, "Sleeper Fire" that burned on and near the mountain.

Enter "Sleeper Mountain" in the Finding Peaks search box to learn more about this mountain. 

Look who's honoured in the Canadian Rockies

ERNEST ROSS
Ernest Ross began working to have a road built west of his home in Rocky Mountain House in 1928. Finally, in 1940, he became the first person to drive from Rocky Mountain House to Saskatchewan River Crossing, some twenty-eight years prior to the construction of a highway. His 1940 effort consisted of two vehicles and took ten days. In 1969, the year following the completion of the David Thompson Highway, the mountain was named to honour his efforts over a forty year period to have the highway completed.
For information about Mount Ernest Ross enter the name in the "Finding Peaks" search box on the main page.

March's Esoteric List

MOUNTAINS WITH ELEVATIONS OF "ALMOST" 11,000 FEET (BETWEEN 10,900 AND 11,000')
Mount Saskatchewan, Mount Barnard, Mount Freshfield, Oppy Mountain, Cataract Peak, Mount Murchison, Mount Chown, Catacombs Mountain, Mount Cromwell, Mount Shackleton, Mount Amery, and Mount Mummery

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

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