Klitsa Mountain is a prominent

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, located west of Beaver Creek and southeast of

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. It can be viewed from Highway 4 along

Sproat Lake Sproat Lake is a lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was known as Kleecoot, meaning "wide open" by local indigenous people. Roughly cross-shaped with four arms, it is over 25 kilometres in length, and has 90.8 kilome ...

. It is the second highest mountain in the

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area, after

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. its name derives from a

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word meaning "always white".Klitsa Mountain
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