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Phyllis's Engine is a sharp granite summit in Garibaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia, north of Vancouver near Mount Carr and Castle Towers Mountain. Its name came from Phyllis Dyke, a pioneering member of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club, who around 1914 thought the surrounding pinnacles resembled a nineteenth-century steam locomotive. Fellow climbers adopted the nickname, and it was formally approved decades later, with the present spelling set in 1995. The peak rises steeply above Garibaldi Lake in a heavily glaciated setting shaped by the wet Coast Mountains climate, and it was first climbed in 1966 by F. Gratwhol and T. Kempter.
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