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Kista Peak is a 2,576-metre summit in Alberta’s North Saskatchewan River valley, part of the Ram Range within the Canadian Rockies. Near Mount Michener and visible from the David Thompson Highway, it rises from sedimentary rock laid down between the Precambrian and Jurassic periods and later pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic mountain climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and temperatures that can drop below -20 °C, with wind chills below -30 °C. Runoff from the peak drains west toward Abraham Lake and east into Kiska Creek.
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