page_title: Hoodoo Mountain
section_title: Glaciers
hierarchical_section_title: Hoodoo Mountain / Geography and geology / Glaciers
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Hoodoo Mountain area.
context_page_description: Hoodoo Mountain is a potentially active flat-topped stratovolcano in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located 74 km northeast of Wrangell, Alaska, on the north side of the lower Iskut River and 30 km east of its junction with the Stikine River. It is situated in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains and existed since the Late Pleistocene stage of the Pleistocene epoch, which began 130,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago.
  The mountain gets its name from the needle-like lava spines or hoodoos that reach heights of 150 m, which give the volcano a strange appearance. This appearance makes Hoodoo Mountain different from other neighbouring mountains in the Boundary Ranges.
  The volcano boasts an ice cap on its summit, and radar imaging of the rock beneath the ice has shown that the mountain's flat-topped summit is not just attributable to the ice cap, but the top of the mountain is flat as well. Beneath the summit ice cap lies an ice-filled volcanic crater that rises at an elevation of 1,850 m and a topographic prominence of 900 m. Except for minor irregularities caused by erosion, any contour line drawn is practically a circle.
context_section_description: The western, eastern and northern flanks of Hoodoo Mountain are covered by two valley glaciers known as the Hoodoo and Twin glaciers, while Hoodoo's southern flank, which extends down to the floodplain of the Iskut River, is free from glacial ice. Hoodoo Glacier on the volcano's western flank extends at the head of the Hoodoo River, while the Twin Glacier on Hoodoo's northern and eastern flanks lies at the headwaters of the Twin River. In the past, Hoodoo Mountain has been covered by glacial ice more than 2 km (1 mi) thick.
  The meltwater from the Hoodoo Glacier drains into the Hoodoo River while meltwater from the Twin Glacier drains into the Twin River. These two relatively small rivers are a source for the much larger Iskut River, flowing from the southern flank of Hoodoo Mountain respectively. Runoff from the Hoodoo and Twin glaciers and those on surrounding mountains is a source of fresh water for major salmon habitats and fisheries on the Iskut and Stikine rivers.
caption: Map of the Hoodoo Mountain area, including the Hoodoo and Twin glaciers and Little Bear Mountain.
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