Mount Habel

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Mount Habel
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Mount Habel seen from Peyto Lake Overlook
Highest point
Elevation 3,073 m (10,082 ft) [1] [2]
Prominence 232 m (761 ft) [3]
Parent peak Mount Baker (3180 m) [3]
Listing
Coordinates 51°38′55″N116°34′17″W / 51.64861°N 116.57139°W / 51.64861; -116.57139 [4] [5]
Geography
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Mount Habel
Location in Alberta
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Mount Habel
Location in British Columbia
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Mount Habel
Location in Canada
Mount Habel
Interactive map of Mount Habel
Country Canada
Provinces Alberta and British Columbia
Protected area Banff National Park
Parent range Waputik Mountains
Topo map NTS 82N10 Blaeberry River [4]
Climbing
First ascent 1923 A. Geoffrion, J.W.A. Hickson, Edward Feuz Jr. [2] [3]

Mount Habel is a 3,073-metre (10,082-foot) mountain summit located in Banff National Park on the Continental Divide along the border of Alberta and British Columbia in the Waputik Mountains, part of the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1986 after Jean Habel. [2] [3] Jean Habel was a German geographer who explored the Canadian Rockies and in 1897 was the first to set foot on the Wapta Icefield which surrounds Mount Habel. [6]

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Geology

Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Habel is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. [7] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. [8]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Habel is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [9] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C (−4 °F) with wind chill factors below −30 °C (−22 °F).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Topographic map of Mount Habel". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mount Habel". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Habel". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Habel (BC)". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  5. ↑ "Mount Habel (AB)". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  6. ↑ Boles, Glen W.; Laurilla, Roger W.; Putnam, William Lowell (2006). Canadian mountain place names : the Rockies and Columbia Mountains . Calgary, Alta.: Rocky Mountain Books. ISBN   9781894765794. OCLC   244770225.
  7. ↑ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  8. ↑ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
  9. ↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN   1027-5606.
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