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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 NEWSLETTER
| Peakfinder Updates
It was during January, 2001 that we began placing photographs of the peaks on the website. Prior to that we had begun the project by accumulating the basic information regarding all the mountains in the Rockies, together with historical information. Seven years later we have a total of 3238 photographs with at least one of 1012 of the 1560 peaks in the Canadian Rockies. We have two or more for 743 of these, and ten or more for thirty of the peaks. The mountain with the most photos is Mount Lougheed with nineteen. We try to avoid photos that include anything but the peak and its natural surroundings -it's portraits of peaks that we are most interested in. However, we couldn't resist including a spectacular shot of a Royal Canadian Air Force "Golden Hawk" sabre jet passing over the summit of Mount Head. If you like fast airplanes, as well as mountains, have a look at it. Thanks to Gerry Hopkins for some great photos of the peaks in the vicinity of Athabasca Pass, some of which were of peaks that we had no photos of at all. Gerry makes a wonderful selection of his photographs available at: http://members.shaw.ca/gerryhopkins/ . Thanks as well to Sonny Bou who travels around the Rockies more than anyone I've come across. He's contributed more photos that anyone to the collection. Have a look at Sonny's website where he has detailed, illustrated descriptions of his scrambles. www.ucalgary.ca/~ssbou/photogallery.html . 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 daveb at peakfinder dot com. Please note that all of the previous newsletters have been archived and are available on the site. If you're interested in esoteric lists, unusual mountain names, etcetera, browse through the earlier issues. |
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| Look who's honoured in the Canadian Rockies WINSTON CHURCHILL Although there is no mountain honouring Britain's and the Commonwealth's wartime leader, we do have the Winston Churchill Range located at the southern end of Jasper National Park. From the confluence of the Athabasca and Sunwapta Rivers in the north the range is bounded by the two rivers until its southern end at the Snow Dome. The range honours Sir Winston Churchill who led Britain and its Commonwealth through the dark days of the early 1940’s and to victory over the Nazis in 1945. The range contains some of the most rugged and difficult to access areas in the Canadian Rockies. For additional information about the peaks of the Winston Churchill Range, enter the name in the "Peaks by Range" search box on the main page. |