Silvertip Mountain

Silvertip Mountain is a 2,596-metre summit in the Canadian Cascades south of Hope, British Columbia, on the northern edge of Skagit Valley Provincial Park. Rising prominently above the rugged North Cascades, it ranks among Canada’s fifty most prominent peaks with 1,871 metres of prominence. A Boundary Survey party made the first recorded ascent in 1908, and the present name was officially adopted in 1948. The mountain’s geology reflects the Chilliwack batholith and the Pemberton Volcanic Belt, while repeated Pleistocene glaciation carved the surrounding U-shaped valleys and stark relief. Its marine west coast climate brings heavy Pacific rain and snow and often severe winter cold.

British Columbia · Canada