Old Goat Mountain

Old Goat Mountain is the 3,120-metre highest summit of the Goat Range in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, rising steeply above the Spray Lakes area near the boundary of Spray Valley Provincial Park and Banff National Park. Its prominence comes from climbing more than 1,400 metres above Spray Lake in only three kilometres, and its runoff drains toward the Spray Lakes Reservoir. The mountain was named in memory of Rick Collier, a founding member of the Old Goats Climbing Club who climbed and wrote about it often before his death in a 2012 mountaineering accident, though the name is not yet official. Its sedimentary rocks were formed from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.

Alberta · Canada