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Chipmunk Mountain is a 2,390-metre peak in southwestern British Columbia, about 23 kilometres southwest of Bralorne, and the highest point on an east-trending screed ridge. Rising as a horn-like rocky tower, it has been compared to The Black Tusk in Garibaldi Provincial Park. Its name was given in 1920 by James Landsborough after a chipmunk shared lunch scraps with a summit party. Geologically, the peak is an erosional remnant of an extinct Miocene volcano. Its rocks, spread across about 12 square kilometres, include pyroclastic rocks, sills, and dikes ranging from basalt to rhyolite, and connect it to the Pemberton Volcanic Belt and the Canadian Cascade Arc.
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