Mount Verendrye

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Mount Verendrye
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East aspect
Highest point
Elevation 3,086 m (10,125 ft) [1] [2]
Prominence 515 m (1,690 ft) [3]
Parent peak Foster Peak (3,201 m) [3]
Isolation 9.14 km (5.68 mi) [3]
Listing Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates 51°00′20″N116°04′31″W / 51.00556°N 116.07528°W / 51.00556; -116.07528 [4]
Naming
Etymology Pierre de La Vérendrye
Geography
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Mount Verendrye
Location in British Columbia
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Mount Verendrye
Location in Canada
Mount Verendrye
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Country Canada
Province British Columbia
District Kootenay Land District
Protected area Kootenay National Park
Parent range Vermilion Range
Canadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82N1 Mount Goodsir
Geology
Rock age Cambrian [5]
Rock type Ottertail Limestone [5]
Climbing
First ascent 1922 by Morrison Bridgland [6]

Mount Verendrye is a 3,086-metre (10,125-foot) mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada.

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Description

Mount Verendrye is situated on the western boundary of Kootenay National Park near the southern end of the Vermilion Range, which is a sub-range of the Canadian Rockies. The peak is the southern end of what is known as the Rockwall which is an escarpment of the Vermilion Range. [2] The Rockwall Trail is a scenic 55 kilometer (34 mile) traverse of alpine passes, subalpine meadows, hanging glaciers, and limestone cliffs, in some places in excess of 900 m (2,953 ft) above the trail. [7] Neighbors include Floe Peak six kilometers to the northwest and Mount Wardle six kilometers to the southeast. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,820 metres (5,970 ft) above the Banff–Windermere Highway in six kilometers (3.7 miles). A roadside pullout along the highway near Verendrye Creek provides a view of the mountain and the scorched Verendrye Creek valley which burned in 2003. [8] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains west to the Kootenay River via Whitetail Creek, and east into Verendrye and Serac Creeks which are tributaries of the Vermilion River. Mount Verendrye is composed of Ottertail limestone, a sedimentary rock laid down during the Cambrian period and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. [9]

History

La Verendrye Pierre de La Verendrye by Edgar Samuel Paxson, 1912.jpg
La Verendrye

The mountain's toponym was applied in 1884 by Canadian surveyor George Mercer Dawson and was officially adopted in 1952 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada to honor Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685–1749), a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer. [10] [11] The first ascent of the summit was made in 1922 by Morrison P. Bridgland (1878–1948), a Dominion Land Surveyor who climbed and named many peaks in the Canadian Rockies. [12] [6]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Verendrye is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [13] Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sorensen, AnneLise; Williams, Christian (2010). The Rough Guide to Canada (7th ed.). p. 690. ISBN   978-1-84836-503-2.
  2. 1 2 Hahn, Bob (2000). Kootenay National Park. Rocky Mountain Books. p. 77. ISBN   9780921102748.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mount Verendrye, British Columbia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  4. ↑ "Mount Verendrye". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  5. 1 2 Baird, David M. (1964). Kootenay National Park: Wild mountains and great valleys (PDF) (Report). Geological Survey of Canada. Miscellaneous Report 9. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  6. 1 2 "Mount Verendrye". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  7. ↑ "Backpacking - Kootenay National Park". pc.gc.ca. Parks Canada. 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  8. ↑ Patton, Brian (2007). Parkways of the Canadian Rockies. Summerthought Publishing Limited. p. 60. ISBN   9780978237523.
  9. ↑ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
  10. ↑ "Mount Verendrye". BC Geographical Names . Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  11. ↑ Boles, Glen W. (2006). Mountain Place Names: The Rockies and Columbia Mountains. Rocky Mountain Books. p. 260. ISBN   978-1-894765-79-4.
  12. ↑ MacLaren, I.S. (2005). Mapper of Mountains M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies 1902-1930. With Eric Higgs, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux. Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press. ISBN   0-88864-456-6.
  13. ↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN   1027-5606.
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