Golden Ears is the name of the

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that lies north of Maple Ridge,

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and is visible from most of the western

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. The mountain is in

Golden Ears Provincial Park Golden Ears Provincial Park is a Provincial park in British Columbia, Canada and is . It is named after the prominent twin peaks which are commonly referred to as Golden Ears ( Mount Blanshard) (elevation: ). The park was originally part of Gariba ...

, and was originally referred to as ''Golden Eyries'', possibly for

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s that were observed near the summit. There is confusion about the name, because of the twin summits the peak exhibits. Many people believe that the mountain is named because it looks like ears which become golden in the sunset light.

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The area encompassing ''Golden Ears'',

Edge Peak Edge Peak is a summit in the Golden Ears Group, located in Golden Ears Provincial Park north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The peak is not named for its shape but rather for Sam Edge who climbed it in 1876 . Other mountains in this area includ ...

and

Blanshard Peak Blanshard Peak also known as The Blanshard Needle by local climbersRicker-CAJ83 is a distinctive rock pinnacle in Golden Ears Provincial Park that is visible from many places in the Lower Mainland. Named for the first governor of the colony of Van ...

(Blanshard Needle) was originally called ''The Golden Eyries'', and the name was corrupted to ''Golden Ears''. The similarity of the peak of the double summit to

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led people to believe that this mountain had the name ''Golden Ears''. In the 1930s or 1940s the government of the day renamed the entire area to ''Mount Blanshard'', and gave

its name, named the southernmost summit

, and conferred the official name ''Golden Ears'' to the peak with the twin summit. Current editions of the NTC map 92G/07 and 92G/08 have the label ''Mount Blanchard'' since the Golden Ears group lies on the border between these two maps. People in the

have always referred to the area, the park and the peak as ''Golden Ears''.

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Live Trails: Golden Ears

Golden Ears Summit hiking route
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