Mount Edziza Provincial Park

British Columbia Provincial Park Of About 2,300 Square Kilometres Built Around A Shield Volcano Rising To 2,787 Metres; More Than Thirty Cinder Cones In Every Colour Of Oxidised Rock, And Obsidian Flows Quarried By The Tahltan For Thousands Of Years · Telegraph Creek, British Columbia

Mount Edziza is a SHIELD VOLCANO rising to two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven metres above the Stikine plateau, and the park around it looks like nowhere else in Canada. Volcanic activity here has run for several million years and has left MORE THAN THIRTY CINDER CONES scattered across the flanks - red, black, orange and yellow, some of them barely weathered and standing out of the tundra like slag heaps built yesterday. There are lava flows, tuyas formed by eruptions under ice, and OBSIDIAN: Edziza obsidian was quarried by the TAHLTAN for thousands of years and traded across an enormous area of the northwest, and pieces of it turn up in archaeological sites hundreds of kilometres away. The Tahltan name for the mountain is TENH DZETLE. THERE ARE NO ROADS AND NO MAINTAINED TRAILS. Access is by float plane or a serious walk in, and parties are usually measured in single figures.

West of Highway 37, Stikine Country, northern British Columbia, Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada

NO GATE, NO FACILITIES, NO MAINTAINED TRAILS AND NO STAFF. The season is ROUGHLY LATE JULY TO EARLY SEPTEMBER, bounded by snow on the high ground. ACCESS IS BY FLOAT PLANE OR HELICOPTER from Dease Lake or Tatogga, or by a long walk in from the Telegraph Creek road or Highway 37 - THERE ARE NO ROADS INTO THE PARK. BC PARKS PERMITS BACKCOUNTRY CAMPING with modest fees and expects complete self-sufficiency; THE ROUTES ACROSS THE PLATEAU ARE UNMARKED AND UNMAINTAINED and navigation is entirely on you. THE OBSIDIAN AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES ARE PROTECTED and material must not be collected - this is Tahltan heritage, not souvenirs. Contact the Tahltan Central Government about travel through their territory. River crossings are the main practical hazard. No cell coverage anywhere.

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