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Talchako Mountain is a major summit in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia, rising west of the Talchako River and north of the Monarch Icefield. Known for its severe profile, it has a steep north face of rock, snow, and glacier, a south side carved by rock gullies and snowfields, and an east face with one thousand meters or more of technical terrain. In the marine west coast climate zone, moist Pacific systems bring heavy precipitation, especially winter snowfall. Temperatures can drop below minus twenty degrees Celsius, with wind chill below minus thirty, shaping its snow, ice, and rugged alpine character.
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