The mountain of Rocher de Boule lies to the south of Hazelton and is a prominent feature over the town. The Gitxsan name is rendered into text as Stekyawden.
When Simon McGillivray, the Hudson’s Bay Company trader and explorer and probably the first non-indigenous visitor to the Forks of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers came in 1833, he described the mountain. Rocks from one of its outlying flanks had collapsed into the Bulkley River at Hagwilget a few years before partially blocking the river and disrupting the salmon runs. The mountain looms large over Hazelton. (Photo: Geoff Mynett, August 2017).
