A mountain the ice never covered, with Arctic permafrost patterns on top of it
A mountain in the Livingstone Range that looks like the Arctic, for a reason: the ice sheets never got over the top of it. Plateau Mountain is a nunatak, the second one on this map in Alberta after the Cypress Hills, and its summit carries PATTERNED GROUND made by permafrost, the polygons and stripes you otherwise have to go a very long way north to stand on, along with alpine and subalpine landforms and plant communities that are rare anywhere else in the province. Alberta made it an ecological reserve in 1991, one of fifteen, set aside for research, education and careful visiting. There is an ice cave up there holding unique ice features and it is GATED: approved researchers only, and that gate is the reason the ice is still worth studying. The reserve is foot access only, with no hunting, no trapping, no camping, no fires and no facilities of any kind. Walk it, look at the ground under your boots, and understand that it is older than almost anything around it.
Kananaskis Country, southern Alberta
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