| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW of The Lions, N of West Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°26'53"N, 123°11'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 14 March 1988 on 92G/6, as long-identified in climbing journals (titles/dates not cited). This is on the Howe Sound Crest Trail - the divide between Howe Sound and Capilano River. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Referred to in hiking journals dating back to the 1920's; so-named because of a "sharp and unwelcome descent on the north slope [ie. unnecessary]....prior to continuing the hike northeast along the divide to the West Lion [sic]". (1988 advice from R.C. Harris, North Shore Hikers, file F.1.34 #3) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Earlier called Mount St. Marks (that name since applied to the next summit southward). (Culbert's "Climber's Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia", 1965, p.27) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |