Hope Slide Viewpoint - Hope, BC
N 49° 17.910 W 121° 15.760
10U E 626308 N 5462091
A big viewpoint for one of the largest landslides in Western Canada.
Waymark Code: WM9AD4
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/21/2010
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From a
web page about landslides in BC:
The Hope slide, 18 kilometres east of Hope, was one of the largest slides in Canadian history. The southwestern slope of Johnson Peak, collapsed on January 9, 1965, spreading 47 million cubic metres of debris, 85 metres thick, over a 3 kilometre stretch of the Hope-Princeton highway. The slide occurred in an unpopulated area in early morning hours and resulted in four deaths.