Jackass Mountain is a
mountain in the
North Cascades of the
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, ...
in southwestern
British Columbia,
Canada, located southeast of
Lytton and south of
Mount Lytton Lytton Mountain, officially gazetted as Mount Lytton, 2049 m (6722 ft), prominence 764 m, is the northernmost summit of the Cascade Mountains in British Columbia, Canada (the range is known as the Cascade Range in the United States). It i ...
. It is named for the muletrains that ventured north to the Cariboo gold fields; apparently some did not make it over the bluff and perished in a fall, hence the name.
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References
External links
Point of Interest "Jackass Mountain"BC Archives
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Canadian Cascades
Fraser Canyon
Kamloops Division Yale Land District
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