Mount Fee is a volcanic peak in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located 13 km (8.1 mi) south of Callaghan Lake and 21 km (13 mi) west of the resort town of Whistler. With a summit elevation of 2,162 m (7,093 ft) and a topographic prominence of 312 m (1,024 ft), it rises above the surrounding rugged landscape on an alpine mountain ridge. This mountain ridge represents the base of a north-south trending volcanic field which Mount Fee occupies.
Mount Fee as seen from Metal Dome
Mount Fee rising above adjacent mountainous terrain. This view of the mountain is from the south.
The prominent spine of Mount Fee rising above the lightly glaciated northern subglacial dome of Ember Ridge.
Mount Cayley volcanic field
The Mount Cayley volcanic field (MCVF) is a remote volcanic zone on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, stretching 31 km (19 mi) from the Pemberton Icefield to the Squamish River. It forms a segment of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, the Canadian portion of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, which extends from Northern California to southwestern British Columbia. Most of the MCVF volcanoes were formed during periods of volcanism under sheets of glacial ice throughout the last glacial period. These subglacial eruptions formed steep, flat-topped volcanoes and subglacial lava domes, most of which have been entirely exposed by deglaciation. However, at least two volcanoes predate the last glacial period and both are highly eroded. The field gets its name from Mount Cayley, a volcanic peak located at the southern end of the Powder Mountain Icefield. This icefield covers much of the central portion of the volcanic field and is one of the several glacial fields in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains.
A view of the MCVF, with Mount Cayley obscured by clouds on the left. Mount Fee is the relatively small jagged peak to the far right.
Mount Fee rising above adjacent mountainous terrain. This view of the mountain is from the south.
Little Ring Mountain, the northernmost volcano in the MCVF. Like Ring Mountain to the south, the volcano gets its flat-topped, steep-sided structure from when magma intruded and melted a vertical pipe in the overlying Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last glacial period.
Mount Fee rising over the lightly glaciated dome of Ember Ridge North.