Mount Begbie
| Mount Begbie | |
|---|---|
 Mount Begbie | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 2,733 m (8,967 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 883 m (2,897 ft)[2] |
| Parent peak | Blanket Mountain (2,809 m)[2] |
| Listing | Mountains of British Columbia |
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).[3] |
| Naming | |
| Etymology | Matthew Baillie Begbie |
| Geography | |
Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value.
| |
| Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
| Interactive map of Mount Begbie | |
| Location | British Columbia, Canada |
| District | Kootenay Land District |
| Parent range | Monashee Mountains |
| Topo map | NTS 82L16 Revelstoke[3] |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1907 Haggen, Herdman, Robertson, E. Feuz Jr.[2] |
| Easiest route | glacier and scrambling |
Mount Begbie is a 2,733-metre (8,967-foot) mountain summit located in the Gold Range of the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. Situated west of the Columbia River high above the shore of Upper Arrow Lake, this prominent peak is visible from the Trans-Canada Highway, Revelstoke, and Revelstoke Mountain Resort ski area. Mt. Begbie Brewing Company, a brewery, was named after the mountain. The nearest peak is Mount Tilley, 3 km (1.9 mi) to the west, and the nearest higher peak is Blanket Mountain, 14.0 km (8.7 mi) to the south.[2]
History
[edit | edit source]Mount Begbie is named for Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie (1819–1894), a prominent judge in the British Columbia colony. The first ascent of the mountain was accomplished June 11, 1907, by James Robert Robertson, J. Herdman, and Rupert W. Haggen, with Edward Feuz Jr. as guide.[4] The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1932 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada,[3] although this toponym had appeared in publications as early as 1887, if not earlier.[5]
Climate
[edit | edit source]Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Begbie is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[6] Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors reaching temperatures below −30 °C. Despite the modest elevation, the climate supports a glacier in the north cirque. Most precipitation runoff from Mount Begbie drains east into tributaries of the Columbia River; however, a portion drains west into the Eagle River, a tributary of the Fraser River.[1]
Geology
[edit | edit source]Mount Begbie is part of the Monashee complex located in the southern part of the Omineca Belt of the Canadian Cordillera (Okulitch 1984, Wheeler & McFeely 1991). The Monashee complex is the lowest structural unit of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex and exposes rock of ancestral North America (Canadian shield). Both the core and the cover sequence of the Thor-Odin culmination have experienced considerable deformation, high-grade metamorphism, late Paleocene-early Eocene anatexis, and Eocene brittle faulting (Johnston et al. 2000, Kruse & Williams 2005, Hinchey et al. 2006). Mt. Begibe is composed dominantly of quartzite and meta-sedimentary gneiss/schist.
Gallery
[edit | edit source]-
North aspect -
-
Mt. Begbie (left) and Mt. Tilley (right)
See also
[edit | edit source]Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c d Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Sessional Papers Volume 7, (1887) p. 25
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Weather: Mount Begbie