Air 2s Mount McKay

[Jagerbomb52]

Looking east from my home (25 plus miles) you will see Mount McKay. It is a mafic sill located south of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on the Indian reserve of the Fort William First Nation. It is the highest, most northern and best known of the Nor'Wester Mountains. It formed during a period of magmatic activity associated with the large Midcontinent Rift System about 1,100 million years ago. McKay is traditionally known as the "Thunder Mountain" (Animikii-wajiw in the Ojibwe language and locally written as "Anemki-waucheu"). The mountain is used by the Ojibwe for sacred ceremonies. Only with the construction of the road did non-First Nations people get access to this land.[4]

The English name "Mount McKay", evolved from "Mackay's Mountain" and later, "McKay's Mountain", after William Mackay, a Scottish free trader who resided in the Fort William area sometime between 1821 and 1857.

 

[Tofino]

Nice pic. I lived there as a kid till age 13. We would drive up to Mount McKay, did not have to pay back then, for family picnic’s and spend the day climbing and hiking to the top from the parking lot. We had a fantastic view of it out our front window on Isabella Street. Loved Chippeawa Park and the sleeping giant also.