Lillooet Icecap

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The Lillooet Icefield, also known as the Lillooet Icecap and the Lillooet Crown, is one of a series of large montane icefields that cover the heights of core areas of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It is the source of six or seven large rivers, including the Lillooet, its namesake, which flows southeast through the Pemberton Valley to Harrison Lake. Other rivers having their source here are the Bridge, Lord, Taseko, Tchaikazan, Chilko and Southgate Rivers. Across Ring Pass on the icefield's southwest flank is the Compton Neve, another large icefield and the soruce or the Elaho and Toba Rivers. A few miles east from the tongue of the Bridge River Glacier are the group of volcanoes known as the Bridge River Cones, just south of the Lillooet Glacier and Silt Lake, which are the origin of the Lillooet River, is the more recently eruptive Mount Meager (2350BP).

A crossing of the Lillooet Icecap is believed to have been attemped during the CPR Survey of the 1870s and 1880s, in the search for viable railway routes through the Coast Mountains, but no proof of where members of such a party met their demise has ever been found. Names on the icefield such as the Stanley Smith and Frank Smith Glaciers are connected with personnel of that expedition.