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Boom Mountain rises on the Alberta–British Columbia border in Canada, north of Vermilion Pass along the Continental Divide. It was named in 1908 after nearby Boom Lake, where an Alpine Club of Canada expedition saw a mass of logs resembling a log boom. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited in shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and winter temperatures that can drop below −20 °C, with wind chill below −30 °C.
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