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Coliseum Mountain, a 2,035-metre peak north of Nordegg in Alberta’s David Thompson Country, takes its present name from its amphitheatre-like bowl, while the Stoney First Nations called it Yahareskin, or “mountain with a cap,” for its bare summit. First mapped in 1858 by Sir James Hector of the Palliser Expedition, it became closely linked to Nordegg after Martin Nordegg climbed it in 1913. Forestry rangers soon used the summit to watch for fires, and a 1927 lookout, remembered as Alberta’s first, made the mountain part of daily town life during the mining era. Today it remains a popular hiking destination.
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