Octopus Mountain

Octopus Mountain is a 2,932-metre summit in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, within the Mitchell Range of the Canadian Rockies. About 12 kilometres west of the Continental Divide, it drains southeast to the Mitchell River and on other sides to tributaries of the Simpson River. Its steep local relief rises more than 1,300 metres above nearby creek and river valleys. The mountain consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny that formed the Rockies. Named by surveyor Robert Daniel McCaw in 1913, it was officially adopted in 1924 and was heavily burned in a 2012 forest fire.

British Columbia · Canada