The Pantheon Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia . It is located between the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau at Tatla Lake on its northeast and the Klinaklini River on its west, with a southeastern boundary along Mosley Creek, a major tributary of the Homathko River . The range is 5,550 km (2,140 sq mi) in area and extremely rugged, with many sharp, glaciated peaks.
8-650: As is shown in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia map, the Pantheon Range is north of the Waddington and Niut Ranges, which corresponds with the official 1:50,000 maps. The range's highest summits are Mount Vishnu 3,008 m (9,869 ft), Mount Astarte 2,959 m (9,708 ft) and Mount Zeus 2,982 m (9,783 ft). Most of the range's peaks have names of gods or other deities, e.g. Thoth, Hermes, Polyphemus, etc. - hence
16-479: Is aimed at hikers and mountaineers, a similar audience to the Canadian Alpine Journal or a guidebook. The articles are supported by a GIS database and mapping system. The organization maintains a structured database of mountains for all Canada with access trails and backroads. The online reference database has about 30,000 mountains, 4000 backroads and 3000 trails. The initial core of the website
24-882: The Chilcotin Plateau . This article related to a mountain, mountain range, or peak in British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia The Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia is an organization based in Vancouver , British Columbia founded in 1995 to provide information on Canada 's mountains, backroads and trails. It
32-917: The Klinaklini River is the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield , which is the largest of the coastal icecaps of the southern Coast Mountains , larger than the Waddington Range 's complex of glaciers and peaks or the Homathko Icefield . North of the Pantheon Range is the northwestern end of the Chilcotin Ranges while farther north, beyond the head of the Klinaklini , is the Rainbow Range , which lies on
40-677: The name. Immediately south of the Pantheon Range is the much higher Waddington Range , home to the highest peak in the Coast Mountains , Mount Waddington , and to the south of that is the Whitemantle Range . Southeast across Mosley Creek, the main west fork of the Homathko River , is the Niut Range , while south of it across the Homathko River is the Homathko Icefield and its attendant ranges. West across
48-610: The previous authoritative guidebooks such as Climber's Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada , first published in 1921, and "A Guide to Climbing and Hiking in Southwestern British Columbia" published in 1986 by Bruce Fairley, and these were adopted by Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. Previously uncharted peaks were assigned letter codes, geographic names and provisional names. The first phase of
56-789: The roads. In October 2000, a major project involving about 30 volunteer editors was begun to catalog every Canadian and US mountain. The initial scope was to catalog every peak over 300 meters of topographic prominence . The source of the data in Canada was the 1:50,000 series National Topographic Series maps, and in the United States, the USGS maps. In British Columbia the source was the TRIM data published by British Columbia Basemap. The catalog involved charting and cataloging many peaks without official name. Many of these peaks had "standing names" in
64-432: Was the mountain, road and trail databases. In 2009, a project was begun to upgrade the road and trail database, taking advantage of the newer air photos currently available via Google Earth. This has resulted in numerous corrections to previous data based on government maps. Roads and trails were classified and color coded according to their current conditions reported by about 7000 road bulletins written by eyewitness users of
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