Mount Bridgland

Mountain in the country of Canada
Mount Bridgland is located in Alberta
Mount Bridgland
Mount Bridgland
Location of Mount Bidgland in Alberta
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Mount Bridgland is located in Canada
Mount Bridgland
Mount Bridgland
Mount Bridgland (Canada)
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LocationAlberta, CanadaParent rangeVictoria Cross Ranges
Canadian RockiesTopo mapNTS 83D15 Lucerne[3]ClimbingFirst ascent1946 by Frank Smythe, Rex Gibson, David Wessel[1]

Mount Bridgland is a 2,930-metre (9,610 ft) mountain located in the Victoria Cross Ranges of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. It was named by Frank Sissons in 1923 after Morrison P. Bridgland (1878-1948), a Dominion Land Surveyor who named many peaks in Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies.[4][1][2][5]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Bridgland is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[6] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. In terms of favorable weather, July through September are the best months to climb. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Miette River.

Geology

The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[7]

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References

  1. ^ a b c "Mount Bridgland". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  2. ^ a b c "Mount Bridgland". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  3. ^ a b "Mount Bridgland". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 25.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Gadd, Ben (2008), Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias
Mount Bridgland (left) and Derr Peak (right)
Mt. Robson and Mt. Bridgland
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