Mount Lady Macdonald

Mount Lady Macdonald is a mountain located within Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park in the Bow River valley at the Town of Canmore, Alberta, which is located just east of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Lady Macdonald
Mount Lady Macdonald from Grotto Mountain (minor summit), October 2009
Highest point
Elevation2,606 m (8,550 ft) [1]
Prominence75 m (246 ft)
Coordinates51°07′20″N 115°19′00″W 
Geography
LocationAlberta, Canada
Parent rangeFairholme Range
Topo mapNTS 82O/03
Climbing
First ascent1886 by J.J. McArthur
Easiest routeScramble (difficult)
Mount Lady McDonald
Mount Lady McDonald (right) seen with Mount Charles Stewart (left)

The mountain was named in 1886 after Susan Agnes Macdonald, wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. The Macdonalds travelled on the new national railway through the Canadian Rockies in 1886 on their way to Vancouver.

Hikers may hike a trail that begins in Cougar Creek and continues to a helipad just short of the knife's edge ridge that leads to the top of the mountain.

Geology

It is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[2] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[3]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, it is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[4] Temperatures can drop below -20 C with wind chill factors below -30 C. Weather conditions during summer months are optimum for climbing.

See also

References
  1. Peakfinder. "Mount Lady Macdonald". Retrieved 2007-08-31.
  2. 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.
  3. Gadd, Ben (2008). "Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 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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