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Crowfoot Mountain  Alberta . Value: 10
Height: 3055 m (10023 ft) Prominence: 355 m  
Line Parent: Mount Olive(4 km away, at bearing 250 degrees)
Location: 51:37:30-116:26:00   51.62500-116.43333   11U 539226 5719483     NAD27: 11U 539227 5719265
NTS Map: 082.N.09 (6 km S of Bow Lake). (26 km N of Field).
Name Status: Official
Ranges: Rocky Mountains / Canadian Rockies / Continental Ranges / Park Ranges / Wapta Icefield
Regions: Continental Columbia / Banff Kananaskis / Howse

First Ascent: 1950 E. Cromwell, G. Engelhard (Cromwell)
Crowfoot Mountain from near Bow Glacier Falls
4 km W of Bow Peak, 3 km SSW of the outlet of Bow Lake. The mountain has three distinct summits, the southerly being the highest.

Name Notes: Named in 1959 after the glacier on its northeast face, which until one lobe fell off in the early 1900s, had three lobes and was shaped like a corvid's toe.

Trip Reports
23 Crowfoot - Northwest Glacier Route Graeme Pole

Subject Trips
Crowfoot - Northwest Glacier

Topo Maps
Bow Lake & Saskatchewan Crossing Gem Trek 1:70000 50m

Nearby Lodge
Bow Hut
Balfour Hut 

Subject Photos   View Thumbnails
11 Crowfoot Mountain and the Wapta Icefields Eric Coulthard
9 Crowfoot Mountain from near Bow Glacier Falls David Wasserman
6 West Face of Crowfoot Mountain Eric Coulthard

Placename Photos
15 Wapta Icefield from the North Eric Coulthard
12 Bow Lake and the Wapta Icefield David Wasserman
10 Bow Lake From Shoreline David Wasserman
4 Crowfoot Glacier Kevin Altheim

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