The Swan Princess Escape from Castle Mountain

Castle Mountain is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over t…
Castle Mountain is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base. The mountain's castellated, or castle-like, appearance is a result of erosive processes acting at different rates on the peak's alternating layers of softer shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite.
  • Elevation: 2,766 m (9,075 ft)
  • Prominence: 168 m (551 ft)
  • Listing: Mountains of Alberta
  • Parent range: Sawback Range (Canadian Rockies)
  • Topo map: NTS 82O5 Castle Mountain
  • First ascent: 1884 by Arthur P. Coleman
  • Easiest route: Moderate scramble (NE)

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