Mount Price (British Columbia)

Mount Price
Garibaldi Lake with Mount Price behind on the right
Elevation	2,052 m (6,732 ft)
Prominence	402 m (1,319 ft)
Listing	List of volcanoes in Canada List of Cascade volcanoes
Location
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Range	Garibaldi Ranges
Coordinates	49°55′N 123°02′W / 49.92°N 123.03°W / 49.92; -123.03
Topo map	NTS 92G/14
Geology
Type	Stratovolcano
Age of rock	Pleistocene
Volcanic arc/belt	Cascade Volcanic Arc Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
Last eruption	9,000 years ago
Climbing
First ascent	1921 BCMC Party
Easiest route	off trail hike from Garibaldi Lake

Mount Price, formerly known as Red Mountain, is a dormant stratovolcano located on the western shore of Garibaldi Lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 70 km (43 mi) north of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is in the Garibaldi Lake volcanic field about 5 m (16 ft) south of Black Tusk. The volcano is part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt which is a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, but it is not within the geographic boundary of the Cascade Range.

Mount Price does not seem to get much traffic at any time of the year. There's a spectacular view of The Table from the summit.

Geology

Garibaldi Lake with Mount Price behind on the left

Mount Price is a member in the chain of volcanic peaks that run from southwestern British Columbia to northern California. The volcanoes formed over the past 35 million years as the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Explorer Plate to its west have been subducting under the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. As the oceanic crust of the Juan de Fuca and the Explorer Plate melts, it creates magma that penetrates the crust of the Cascade Range and southwestern Coast Mountains, causing periodic eruptions of the volcanoes.

Mount Price was formed during three periods of activity. Initial 1.2-million-years-ago eruptions constructed a hornblende andesite stratovolcano on the drift-covered floor of a cirquelike basin. The focus of volcanic activity then shifted westward, where 0.3-million-years-ago eruptions of andesite-dacite lavas and Peléan pyroclastic flows formed the nearly symmetrical (2,050 m) Mount Price. This cone was overridden by the continental ice sheet before eruptions at a satellite vent on its northern flanks. Possibly contemporaneous activity occurred at Clinker Peak on the western shoulder of Mount Price. Two hornblende-biotite andesite flows, which spread 6 kilometers northwest and southwest from the breached lava ring, were ponded (>250 meters thickness) against the continental ice sheet and formed The Barrier containing Garibaldi Lake. These lavas postdate disappearance of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet from higher altitudes, but predate its disappearance from lower elevations in early Holocene time. The Barrier failed in a series of landslides, the most recent of which occurred in 1855-1856.

External links

• "Mount Price". Bivouac.com. http://www.bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=619. 

See also

Volcanism of Canada portal

• Clinker Ridge
• List of volcanoes in Canada
• Cascade Volcanoes
• Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
• Cascade Range
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Western Canada