Mount Boucherie

Mount Boucherie in West Kelowna, above the west shore of Okanagan Lake, is the heavily eroded remnant of a stratovolcano formed nearly 60 million years ago and reshaped by repeated glaciation over the past 50 million years. Once estimated at 2,000 metres or more, it now rises about 417 metres above the lake. Its cliffs and slopes reveal rhyolite, andesite, and dacite, preserving evidence of its volcanic past. The mountain was named for early settler Isadore Boucherie, whose ranch lay below it. Today it is also a regional park, and in 1992 a fire on its north and east slopes forced evacuations but destroyed no homes.

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