Mount Fee

Mount Fee is a rugged volcanic mountain in southwestern British Columbia, on an alpine ridge at the southern end of the Mount Cayley volcanic field within the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. Formed more than 75,000 years ago as a stratovolcano, it was heavily eroded by glaciation, which stripped away much of its cone and exposed its jagged dacite and rhyodacite core, steep flanks, lava spines, and twin summits divided by a U-shaped cleft. Indigenous peoples long used its glassy volcanic rock for tools, and artifacts from the mountain appear at sites dating from about 100 to 8,000 years ago. Today it remains a dramatic but little-monitored volcanic landmark.

British Columbia · Canada