Tumbling Peak is a mountain
summit
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located on the western border of
Kootenay National Park in the
Vermilion Range, which is a sub-range of the
Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies (french: Rocheuses canadiennes) or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. It is the easternmost part ...
of
British Columbia,
Canada. The mountain takes its name from the Tumbling Glacier located on its northeast flank. Its nearest higher peak is
Foster Peak, to the southeast.
[ ]Hewitt Peak
Hewitt Peak is a mountain summit located on the western border of Kootenay National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. The peak is also known locally as Mammoth Peak, and originally as Mount 10060. The alternate names d ...
is also to the southeast, and Mount Gray is to the immediate northwest. The mountain is situated in an area known as the Rockwall, which is an escarpment of the Vermilion Range. The Rockwall Trail is a scenic 55 kilometers (34 miles) traverse of alpine passes, sub-alpine meadows, hanging glaciers, and limestone cliffs, in some places in excess of 900 meters (2953 feet) above the trail.
Geology
Tumbling Peak is composed of Ottertail limestone, a sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian
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to Jurassic periods and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Tumbling Peak is located in a subarctic climate
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zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.runoff
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from the mountain drains east into tributaries of the Vermilion River, or west into headwaters of the Kootenay River.
Gallery
File:Tumbling Peak, Kootenay National Park.jpg, Northeast aspect
File:Tumbling Peak fron Rockwall Trail.jpg, Tumbling Peak seen from the north along the Rockwall Trail
See also
* Geography of British Columbia
* Geology of the Rocky Mountains
References
External links
* Parks Canada web site
Kootenay National Park
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Three-thousanders of British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Kootenay National Park