LAND
BY TAYLOR-ANN SMITH
01 - Mount Robson British Columbia / 12,972 FT
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02 - Grand Teton Wyoming / 13,776 FT
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CANADIAN & NORTHERN ROCKIES
MIDDLE ROCKIES
This stretch of the Rockies includes the Mackenzie and Selwyn mountains in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and the ranges of western Alberta and eastern British Columbia, created 65 to 35 million years ago.The Lewis and Bitterroot ranges of western Montana and northeastern Idaho completed this section of the Rockies.
The Bighorn and Wind River ranges of Wyoming, and the Wasatch Range in southeastern Idaho and northern Utah make up the Middle Rockies. The Absaroka Range of southeastern Montana and northwestern Wyoming are a link to the northern section of the Rocky Mountain Range.
• Includes the Columbia Icefield: the largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains and one of the most accessible expanses of glacial ice in North America.
• The Teton Range in Jackson, Wyoming, attained its form less than 10 million years ago and moved more than 20,000 vertical feet relative to the valley floor of Jackson Hole. This makes them one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America.