Snow Dome from Wilcox Peak

Located on the Columbia Icefield, at the head of the Athabasca, Saskatchewan and Columbia Glaciers. Snowdome is the "triple point" where the continental divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans splits into two divides: the Arctic-Pacific Divide (between the Arctic Ocean and Pacific Ocean), and the Arctic-Hudson's Bay Divide, between Hudson's Bay and the Arctic Ocean. The three main glaciers that drain from the peak go to the Athabasca River (Arctic Ocean), the Saskatchewan River (Hudson's Bay) and the Columbia River (Pacific Ocean).

Name Notes: The peak was first climbed by Norman Collie and party in 1898. Collie first referred to the peak as "The Dome" in 1898, but in 1919 it was officially named "Snow Dome".

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Trip Reports
29 Snow Dome Apex is not the exact continental triple point ? Klaus Haring

Subject Trips
Snow Dome Apex is not the exact continental triple point ?
Snow Dome - Various Routes

Topo Maps
Columbia Icefield Gem Trek 1:75000 200' 

Placename Photos
20 Mount Columbia From Near Snow Dome Philip Mees
19 Mount Woolley Panorama Dave Stephens
13 Columbia Icefield Panorama from Tangle Ridge Eric Coulthard
13 Tangle Ridge and the Columbia Icefields Eric Coulthard
11 Labelled Panorama from Castleguard, Part 2 David Wasserman
11 Wilcox Peak Panorama Ian Hunt
9 Seracfall on the Columbia Icefields Lee Lau