Talk:Mount Brew

This has to be a disambiguation page

There are three Mount Brews in British Columbia; another one near Likely, this one - the biggest - near Lillooet, and the much smaller one near Whistler/Squamish.

• Mount Brew (Lillooet Ranges) - just S of Lillooet
• Mount Brew (Cariboo Montains) - just N of Quesnel Lake
• Mount Brew (Pacific Ranges) or maybe Mount Brew (Cheakamus River) or Mount Brew (Squamish River) or something similar will suffice

There should also be a dab or more properly maybe a see also to any Mount Brewsters (one in Antarctica for sure; search www.peakbagger.com; thankfully not even in the US, although there is a Brew Hill there. In future please always consult bivouac.com, topozone.com, peakbagger.com to check for any multiple names, also the Canadian Geonames database and its American equivalent before creating mountain articles in future. The two larger Mount Brews were named for Chartres Brew, the first Chief Constable of the Mainland Colony; the one at Garibaldi for another reason I can't recall, though I don't think connected with the liquor context of Brandywine Falls/Creek/Mountain, and named before anyway; might have been a construction foreman with Foley, Welch and Stewart on the construction of the PGE maybe.Skookum1 08:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

DONE. This is now a disambiguation page with the links you suggested above. The original article was moved to Mount Brew (Cheakamus River), but this talk page was intentionally not moved. --Seattle Skier (See talk tierS) 23:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Not in the Garibaldi Ranges

Please be more careful about this; nothing west of Highway 99 is in the Garibaldi Ranges. There is no formal name for the range lying between the Elaho-Meager and the Cheakamus-Green passes; the only official designation for that area is Pacific Ranges. Pemberton Icecap constitutes a range and is generally treated as such, including in classifications in the Wiki article on the Pacific Ranges (because I made them that way); but this isn't Pemberton Icecap, nor is it Powder Mountain Icefield as you might also put for Brandywine Mtn etc.; Brew's a stand-alone despite being part of the same general massif. For location I'd say Garibaldi, British Columbia, although I suppose Whistler, British Columbia will have to do. If there are other peaks west of Highway 99 listed as being in the Garibaldi Ranges, please take them out (I don't have the time, and will be leaving Wikipedia very soon - like after next week), and be more mindful of range-designations and boundaries; they can be research; if you need a good reference the university/college and possibly local libraries should have Landforms of British Columbia, S. Holland, BC Govt 1976, which is the definitive source; the main stacks at SFU have about 30 copies; Holland describes the range boundaries in relative detail - I unsorted them all when I worked out the range allocation-sort in Wikipedia, which had to have digi-plotted latlongs; he seems to have deactivated it now, which is a piss-off because it took me a good eight months to build, at his behest; but such is in the nature of volunteering in a non-consensus environment; bivouac could learn a lot from the way wiki runs itself, haphazard though it can be; anyway, that being said please read up on the ranges as you're on a roll with mountain articles so they're placed in the right ranges; in bivouac it was automated, i.e. the peak entry would "know" in the database which boundary it was inside of, if it was.Skookum1 08:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Mountains are about more than vulcanology...

Postscript: when I wrote this originally I was so confused by seeing the Mt Cayley reference and the Garibaldi Ranges designation that I thought you were talking about the little Mt Brew by the Cheakamus; that's why vulcanological designations are confusing for ordinary people. Just because something's in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt doesn't mean it's in the Garibaldi Ranges; you should know better considering what went on with Cascade Range/Cascade Volcanoes, unless this was just a copy-paste mistake when transferring the infobox in. And as in my edit comment, please try and write articles that mean something other to vulcanologists. The opening sentence here said, first before anything else, that it was a subglacial mound. I mean, who cares?? It's the second-highest peak on the west side of the Fraser Canyon/in the Lillooet Ranges (tantamount to the same thing) and a dominant piece of a very notable bit of historical/scenic landscape. A "mound" indeed. I'm not trying to be harsh; just being frank; please write MOUNTAIN articles, not just volcano ones, if you're writing especially about significant peaks; and the vulcanology doesn't need to be in the intro, just the height, range designation, description of location, namesake, any special stories (of general interest, not vulcanological data); you'll note I broke off what had been in your intro paragraph here and made a "Vulcanology" section. You might also want to add other geographical information, too.....which creeks flow off it, nearby summits (only a few are named, mostly south along the Fraser or across it, or north across Seton Canyon, not westwards until, I think, Mount Gott - speaking of official names only, not bivouackized ones). OK, that's it; I didn't want to spend any wiki time tonight but I happened to look up Mt Brew because it came up in discussion when a friend came over; I was so put off/confused by what I first saw I read it as the Cayley-Garibaldi area Mount Brew, so didn't even notice until I sat down to edit that this was, in fact, the big peak near Lillooet.

I care about volcanology and so does the Geological Survey of Canada. When this was an article and not a disambiguation page, it was about Mount Brew (Cheakamus River). Frankly, I just created this Mount Brew as Mount Brew (Lillooet Ranges). Black Tusk (talk) 00:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

and so if it's in the Mt Cayley Volcanic Field, then it's a Cascade Volcano as well? Just checking; aren't Red and Poison Mtns in the Yalakom (Camelsfoot Range - "the Yalakom" is a Lillooetism for everything reached by driving up the Yalakom River, i.e. the Yalakom basin, although it refers more to a sense of place/space than to the basin per se; until you get to Poison and Red, beyond which are other areas); reason I'm asking is because they're very domeish and look volcanic in origin, as also with nearby Big Dog and Big Sheep Mountains and French Bar Mountain; there are also cone-type formations on top of China Head, which is a very high rangeland plateau west of Big Bar Ferry; and Black Dome Mountain as mentioned before is an old volcano. Just wondering.....Skookum1 08:24, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Never herd of those mountains. And yes, any volcanoes in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt are a Cascade volcano. Black Tusk (talk) 00:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)