CALGARY — Naming mountains used to be a hobby for David Jones.

Through the 1970s, the passionate climber and guidebook author would sit atop peaks in Alberta and B.C.'s mountain range, often with a climbing partner, and they would write down made-up names, all to be sent to the government to have them officially recognized.

"That's Hitchhiker, because there's a pick with a little thumb on the back. And that's Whiteface, because there's a big white scar on it," Jones offers as examples.

"We just scribbled the names on a map."

The names were usually accepted, says the 77-year-old, but times and standards have changed.

A seasonal worker in Jasper National Park is attempting to name a little-known mountain there after his parents, generating chatter among mountaineers about which renaming

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