Eve Cone

The cone contains a circular, 45 m (148 ft) deep summit crater and was the source of an extensive lava flow that travelled down the northern side of the Big Raven Plateau towards Buckley Lake.

Access is via horse trails from the communities of Telegraph Creek and Iskut, although landing on Buckley Lake with float-equipped aircraft is also promoted to reach Eve Cone.

Jack Souther, a geologist of the Geological Survey of Canada who studied the area in detail from 1965 to 1992, named the cone after Eve Brown Edzerza.

[2][11][12] Johnny and Hank were killed in an avalanche on the mountain during a vicious snowstorm that had blown in from the north, but Eve survived, directing a rescue team to the site of the accident.

[2][14] In his 1992 report The Late Cenozoic Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia, Jack Souther gave Eve Cone the numeronym DLF-9, DLF being an acronym for the Desolation Lava Field.

[16] Eve Cone is located in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, about 11 km (6.8 mi) southeast of Buckley Lake at the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau.

[1][7][18] The volcanic complex consists of a group of overlapping shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, lava domes and cinder cones that have formed over the last 7.5 million years.

[4][16] Mount Edziza Provincial Park is in the Tahltan Highland, a southeast-trending upland area extending along the western side of the Stikine Plateau.

[7][25] The dominant rocks comprising these volcanoes are alkali basalts and hawaiites, but nephelinite, basanite and peralkaline phonolite, trachyte and comendite are locally abundant.

[6][27][28][29] Such features are typically considered to erupt only once and to be short-lived; they can remain active from days to years, but are fed by a relatively small amount of magma.

[31] Eve Cone was the source of a roughly 12 km (7.5 mi) long lava flow that travelled down the northern side of the Big Raven Plateau.

[4][8][34] BC Parks recommends visitors to ascend Eve Cone using the main trail on its southeastern flank to prevent foot scarring on its delicate surface.

Overhead view of lava flows from two volcanic cones
False colour image of lava flows from Eve and Sidas cones
A gently sloping surface rising above vegetated slopes with mountains in the background and foreground.
Panoramic view of the Big Raven Plateau ; Eve Cone is visible as a small dark hill to the centre-right