Akasik Mountain

Akasik Mountain is a mountain in the Lillooet Ranges of British Columbia, Canada, located southwest of the town of Lytton.[2]

Akasik Mountain
Akasik Mountain British Columbia, Canada
Highest point
Elevation	2,450 m (8,040 ft)[1]
Prominence	285 m (935 ft)[1]
Parent peak	Petlushkwohap Mountain (2939 m)[1]
Listing	Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates	50°14′16″N 121°45′55″W[2]
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
District	Kamloops Division Yale Land District
Parent range	Lillooet Ranges
Topo map	NTS 93D1 Jacobsen Glacier[2]

The mountain is associated in the lore of the Nlaka'pamux people with Skihist Mountain, whose name means "jump" or "leap" and is a reference to a mythological giant who leapt back and forth between Skihist and this summit.[2]

References

"Akasik Mountain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
"Akasik Mountain". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2021-07-20.

Pacific Ranges
Ranges	Bendor Britannia Bunster Cadwallader Calliope Camelsfoot Cantilever Caren Cayley Chilcotin Colville Conical Douglas Earle Edwards Fannin Fitzsimmons Franklyn Fraser Garibaldi Gastineau Georgina Koeye Lewis Lillooet Meager Namu Nicholl Niut North Shore Pantheon Pembroke Sir Harry Tantalus Tottenham Unwin Waddington Wharncliffe Whitemantle
Mountains	Akasik Alfred Alice Arthur Asperity Birkenhead Bishop The Black Tusk Blackcomb Blanshard Brandywine Breakenridge Brew Brew Burke Callaghan Capricorn Castle Towers Cauldron Cayley Cinder Cone Clarke Coquitlam Crevasse Crag Crickmer Crown Currie Cypress Devastator Dewdney Eagle Edge Elsay Fang Fee Fitzgerald Forefinger Frederick William Fromme Garibaldi Good Hope Grouse Helena Job Judge Howay Kinch Little Finger Little Ring Luna Mamquam Meager Merlon Middle Finger Monarch Monmouth Munday Nicomen One Eye Opal Cone Overill Pali Petlushkwohap Plinth Powder Price Pylon Pyroclastic Queen Bess Raleigh Red Tusk Ring Robie Reid Round Serratus Seymour Silverthrone Skihist Stein Somolenko Spearhead Table Tantalus Taseko Tatlow Tiedemann Tricouni Tuber Vic Victoria Vulcan's Thumb Waddington Wedge Wellington ʔEniyud (Niut)
Passes	Cayoosh Griswold McGillivray Pemberton Railroad Tyoax Wedge
Glaciers	Chaos Compton Névé Diamond Franklin Garibaldi Névé Ha-Iltzuk Homathko Klinaklini Mamquam Monarch Parallel Pashleth Powder Mountain Silverthrone Spearhead
Communities	List of communities in British Columbia
Parks	Clendinning Duffey Lake Garibaldi Mount Elphinstone Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Spruce Lake (South Chilcotin) Upper Lillooet Golden Ears Tantalus Mehatl Creek Birkenhead Lake Joffre Lakes Ts'il?os Bishop River Princess Louisa Marine Callaghan Nairn Falls Brandywine Falls Alice Lake Blackcomb Glacier Tetrahedron Stawamus Chief Murrin Mount Seymour Cypress Say Nuth Khaw Yum (Indian Arm) Pinecone-Burke Shannon Falls Rolley Lake Sasquatch Big Creek Homathko Estuary Davis Lake

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