Chushina Glacier

Alberta-BC boundary. Former name: Fraser River drainage
Between Snowbird Pass and Lynx Mountain
53.1417 N 119.05 W — Map 83E/3 — GoogleGeoHack
Not currently an official name.

From the crest of Phillips Mountain “a glacier slopes down for a mile and a half to the edge of the cliffs west of Snowbird Pass. It is such a fine example of a small and complete glacier from névé to foot that I think it worthy of the name Chushina,” wrote Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927] after his 1912 reconnaissance of the Robson region.

References:

  • Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine, (1913):626. Internet Archive

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