Mount Colonel Foster

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Mount Colonel Foster
Elevation 2,135 m
Location Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Range Elk River
Prominence 864 m
Coordinates 49°45.0′N, 125°52.1′W
Topo map NTS 92F/13
First ascent 1968, Mike Walsh

Mount Colonel Foster is a mountain located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. At 2135 m, it is fouth the highest peak on the island. The mountain is regarded as the "unrivalled alpine climbing mecca"[1] of British Columbia.

Mount Colonel Foster is located across the Elk River from Elkhorn Mountain. The east face is a 1,000m wall.

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[edit] History

Mount Colonel Foster is named in honour Colonel (later Major General) William Foster who was war veteran, a provincial government official, an avid mountaineer and an anti-union business leader. Although it was thought that the 1912 Alpine Club ascent by Arthur Wheeler reached the highest peak, the highest part of the mountain was not scaled until Mike Walsh reached the summit in 1968. Wheeler did name the mountain after Foster.

On June 23, 1946, a 7.2 Richter Scale earthquake centred to the east of Strathcona Park, caused a slide which resulted in 1.5 million cubic metres of rock about half of which found its way to Landslide Lake below. The slide and a huge displacement wave caused devastation in the upper Elk Valley. The damage is clearly visible to this day. [2]

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[edit] Sources

  • Philip Stone (2003). Island Alpine, A Guide to the Mountains of Strathcona Park and Vancouver Island. Wild Isle Publications: Heriot Bay, BC. ISBN 0-9680766-5-3. 
  • Lindsay Elms (1996). Beyond Nootka, A Historical Perspective of Vancouver Island Mountains. Misthorn Press: Courtenay, BC. ISBN 0-9680159-0-5. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stone, p 228
  2. ^ Elms, p. 94
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