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I just started my work here (I've been doing a lot of editing in the Chilcotin area lately) & the first thing that I realized need to be worked on (aside from the references which I fixed in a heartbeat with pleasure [& sugar on top :P]) was the coordinates. I figured this out when I was looking for the mountain on Google Earth; I typed in "Taseko Mountain" & it took me to... pretty much nowhere... some logging road about 13 kn northeast of Fish Lake. In any case, the coordinates of 51°32′00″N 123°28′18″W / 51.53333°N 123.47167°W / 51.53333; -123.47167 did NOT take me to Taseko Mountain & are obviously incorrect. No worries though; using a topo map I found where the summit really is & now have the correct coordinates (51°14′00″N 123°28′25″W / 51.23333°N 123.47361°W / 51.23333; -123.47361). I will add them in. Surely coordinates that far off didn't come off BCGNIS, did they? Okay, maybe they just screwed up big time on that one; everyone screws up royally now & then. :)

By the way, it's pretty cool (I think) that this mountain & Mount Tatlow have the exact same elevation. Obviously it's just a coincidence; it's not like someone took a (giant) level or ruler to their peaks, but still, that's pretty sweet. :P

On a side note, speaking of Tatlow, I did a google search on it & there is not a lot of stuff about the climbing routes to the summit. I think there is something the local first nations people in the area set up so that people weren't constantly climbing around the peak (I think it is the same with other peaks in the area as well) but honestly, you'd think there would be something on the climbing routes (I'd love to climb it one day; it's such an awesome looking & prominent peak). You would expect a mountain that turns as many heads as Tatlow would attract climbers & as a result you would think details on climbing it would be easy to find on the Net, but this is obviously not the case with Tatlow.

Anyway, those were just a few thoughts. Feel free to leave a reply to this if you want; I'll happily converse with you; this area of BC interests me greatly. :) AndrewEnns (talk) 06:58, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tatlow is off-limits to climbers by edict of the Xeni Gwet'in and I believe it's in the enacting legislation for Tsi?los Provincial Park which contains it.....Taseko Mtn, on the other hand, is just really remote and hard to get to, with no nearby road access (unlike Tatlow, which is immediately above Nemaiah Valley; the roads into Big Creek Provincial Park or into the upper end of the Tyaughton/Relay Creek valleys from the south fall short of it quite a bit, with tough country/ridges in between..... That's why there's not much in the way of climbing reports - is there nothing in bivouac.com? (I'd think there would be...).Skookum1 (talk) 18:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]