Mount Bowlen

Mount Bowlen stands on the Alberta-British Columbia border in Canada as part of the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the Canadian Rockies, a landscape of clustered high summits and glacial scenery. Renamed in 1953 for John J. Bowlen, it had previously been called Yamnee, a Nakoda word meaning three. Its sedimentary rock was laid down in ancient shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny that shaped much of the Rockies. With a subarctic climate and severe winter cold, it remains valued for both its geology and dramatic setting along the provincial divide.

Alberta · Canada