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The Coastal Mountains are located from Del Norte County down to the Mexican Border. The geological theory is that approxmately 250 million years ago, the Pacifican Plate and the North American Plate had a head-on collision, and the Pacifican Plate had slipped underneath the North American Plate, heating, melting, and crushing as it reached the Earth's interior. The Coastal Mountains is a countinuously linked trek that stretches from the southern Oregon State down south, with a exception of a break at the Golden Gate Bidge.
What about the Caren Range ( http://www.carenrange.com/)? -- Bill.albing 19:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
This article needs a lot of work. I would add some volcanological infomation but I don't want this page to end up like the Cascade Range article since this page quite short. Black Tusk ( talk) 16:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm starting to gather infomation, images and references to make a major expansion and eventually make this article GA status since I see lots of editors are too lazy to make contributions. The Coast Mountains have many environmental effects, including weather. Black Tusk ( talk) 00:09, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
By a few dozen square miles....maybe. FWIR the Coast Mountains don't extend much past the Chilkoot Pass - I can never remember the name of the pass west of there, the one the Haines Highway transits, that's the divide point for the Fairweather Range, which isn't part of the Coast Mountains; maybe though there's a few summits north of the 60th Parallel between there and Atlin Lake - but not many and they definitely end at Champagne Pass; though as I think i recall that pass is the boundary of the Alsek Ranges, which with the Fairweathers are subranges of the Saint Elias Mountains and so also aren't part of the Coast Mountains....of the Pacific Coast Ranges, yes, but not of the Coast Mountains... Skookum1 ( talk) 05:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
I have been pondering what should be included in this article. A large mountain range like the Coast Mountains must have lots of information and knowledge. Surely there has to be information about glaciers, icefields and other mountainous stuff, but lots of areas in the Coast Mountains are either remote or poorly known. More about the mountain range's creation would be ideal since I know enough about its formation and is one of the core subjects of the range. Stuff about mountain passes, rivers or lakes should probably be included as well. Black Tusk ( talk) 12:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I have strong reservations about using the unofficial names conferred by Bivouac's senior editor Robin Tivy as being at all meaningful; he was "playing God" in doing so and many of his names are utterly out of context, and it's not in his personal power/authority to be doing this. In the case of the climbing-club named regions like "The Tahumming" these should all be marked/footnoted as "unofficial, derived from climbers' guides" or some such label; it's different when there's an informal usages ilke the Pemberton Range (the east flank of the Pemberton Valley from Pemberton northwestwards, not sure if it extends past Railroad Pass or not); "Bridge-Lillooet Divide" is the area between Salal Creek and Railroad Pass; its eastern regions - the Bridge-Hurley Divide - are called locally the Hurley Range; between the Hurley and Pemberton Pass and McGillivray Pass a local usage is "Birkenhead Ranges" (which includes the formally-named Cadwallader Range and also the informally-named Noel Range, and the Pemberton Range); but none of these are official, though they turn up in historical writings. The difference is that they're not part of an agenda from one website to advance its nomenclature and to go naming things willy-nilly across the countryside. It may be that Scud Peak and Kwatna Peak are more-or-less valid as derived from the name of a nearby river; I know when I created those entries they were Peak 14-10 Scud River and Peak 04-67 Kwatna River according to the system we were using then. Robin had other ideas, and wants to be a one-man naming committee, hoping that the names he confers become official (and he ultimately gets credit for them, too). As a friend of mine in Lillooet says, "mountains don't need names, let them just be mountains"; this was in reference not just to "Seton Peak" (the higehst in the Cayoosh, to the south of Seton Lake) but also Robin's obsessive need which took Marshall Ridge, named after Ernie Marshall, and added a bunch of military-rank names to its various summits (totally out of context and not used locally at all) or deciding that Nine Mile Ridge's highest point needed a name "because a ridge is not a summit". He's done the same on Fountain Ridge, the jagged rampart opposite Lillooet, without asking anyone locally and without actually even climbing the ridge. this is all bogus; Peak 24-10 Scud River and most of the peaks around it don't have names and arent' likely to anytime soon; how to name them I don't know, but I don't think it's right to absorb bivouac's a priori names as if they were valid; at the very least they should be directly tagged as not being official and being only used by one website. Skookum1 ( talk) 16:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Coastal Mountains are located from Del Norte County down to the Mexican Border. The geological theory is that approxmately 250 million years ago, the Pacifican Plate and the North American Plate had a head-on collision, and the Pacifican Plate had slipped underneath the North American Plate, heating, melting, and crushing as it reached the Earth's interior. The Coastal Mountains is a countinuously linked trek that stretches from the southern Oregon State down south, with a exception of a break at the Golden Gate Bidge.
What about the Caren Range ( http://www.carenrange.com/)? -- Bill.albing 19:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
This article needs a lot of work. I would add some volcanological infomation but I don't want this page to end up like the Cascade Range article since this page quite short. Black Tusk ( talk) 16:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm starting to gather infomation, images and references to make a major expansion and eventually make this article GA status since I see lots of editors are too lazy to make contributions. The Coast Mountains have many environmental effects, including weather. Black Tusk ( talk) 00:09, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
By a few dozen square miles....maybe. FWIR the Coast Mountains don't extend much past the Chilkoot Pass - I can never remember the name of the pass west of there, the one the Haines Highway transits, that's the divide point for the Fairweather Range, which isn't part of the Coast Mountains; maybe though there's a few summits north of the 60th Parallel between there and Atlin Lake - but not many and they definitely end at Champagne Pass; though as I think i recall that pass is the boundary of the Alsek Ranges, which with the Fairweathers are subranges of the Saint Elias Mountains and so also aren't part of the Coast Mountains....of the Pacific Coast Ranges, yes, but not of the Coast Mountains... Skookum1 ( talk) 05:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
I have been pondering what should be included in this article. A large mountain range like the Coast Mountains must have lots of information and knowledge. Surely there has to be information about glaciers, icefields and other mountainous stuff, but lots of areas in the Coast Mountains are either remote or poorly known. More about the mountain range's creation would be ideal since I know enough about its formation and is one of the core subjects of the range. Stuff about mountain passes, rivers or lakes should probably be included as well. Black Tusk ( talk) 12:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I have strong reservations about using the unofficial names conferred by Bivouac's senior editor Robin Tivy as being at all meaningful; he was "playing God" in doing so and many of his names are utterly out of context, and it's not in his personal power/authority to be doing this. In the case of the climbing-club named regions like "The Tahumming" these should all be marked/footnoted as "unofficial, derived from climbers' guides" or some such label; it's different when there's an informal usages ilke the Pemberton Range (the east flank of the Pemberton Valley from Pemberton northwestwards, not sure if it extends past Railroad Pass or not); "Bridge-Lillooet Divide" is the area between Salal Creek and Railroad Pass; its eastern regions - the Bridge-Hurley Divide - are called locally the Hurley Range; between the Hurley and Pemberton Pass and McGillivray Pass a local usage is "Birkenhead Ranges" (which includes the formally-named Cadwallader Range and also the informally-named Noel Range, and the Pemberton Range); but none of these are official, though they turn up in historical writings. The difference is that they're not part of an agenda from one website to advance its nomenclature and to go naming things willy-nilly across the countryside. It may be that Scud Peak and Kwatna Peak are more-or-less valid as derived from the name of a nearby river; I know when I created those entries they were Peak 14-10 Scud River and Peak 04-67 Kwatna River according to the system we were using then. Robin had other ideas, and wants to be a one-man naming committee, hoping that the names he confers become official (and he ultimately gets credit for them, too). As a friend of mine in Lillooet says, "mountains don't need names, let them just be mountains"; this was in reference not just to "Seton Peak" (the higehst in the Cayoosh, to the south of Seton Lake) but also Robin's obsessive need which took Marshall Ridge, named after Ernie Marshall, and added a bunch of military-rank names to its various summits (totally out of context and not used locally at all) or deciding that Nine Mile Ridge's highest point needed a name "because a ridge is not a summit". He's done the same on Fountain Ridge, the jagged rampart opposite Lillooet, without asking anyone locally and without actually even climbing the ridge. this is all bogus; Peak 24-10 Scud River and most of the peaks around it don't have names and arent' likely to anytime soon; how to name them I don't know, but I don't think it's right to absorb bivouac's a priori names as if they were valid; at the very least they should be directly tagged as not being official and being only used by one website. Skookum1 ( talk) 16:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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