Deception Pass
Deception Pass is a trail in Banff National Park Alberta, Canada. It is named so because it is deceiving in that it looks small but the end never seems to come into sight.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fossil Mountain and Ptarmigan Peak.
Fossil Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fossil Mountain is a mountain located south of Skoki Mountain in Banff National Park, Canada. The mountain was named in 1906 by M.P. Bridgland, of the first ascent party, after the numerous fossils that can be found on its slopes.
Ptarmigan Peak
Peak
Photo: Graham Lewis, CC BY 2.0.
Ptarmigan Peak is a mountain located near Pika Peak in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1909 by J.W.A. Hickson, who named it after encountering several rock ptarmigan in the meadows below the peak.
Brachiopod Mountain
Peak
Brachiopod Mountain was named by James F. Porter for the fossil brachiopods found in the Devonian limestone of the mountain. It is located in the Slate Range, a subset of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada.
Deception Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 2,338 metres
- Description: mountain pass in Alberta, Canada
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.49702° or 51° 29′ 49″ northLongitude
-116.06215° or 116° 3′ 44″ westElevation
2,338 metres (7,671 feet)Open location code
9535FWWQ+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3624028985OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Deception Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Deception Pass”
- Cebuano: “Deception Pass”
- Hebrew: “מעבר דספשן”
- Swedish: “Deception Pass”
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