Carcajou Peak is a mountain summit in
British Columbia, Canada.
Description
Carcajou Peak is located southeast of
Whistler in
Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is part of the
McBride Range
The McBride Range is a small mountain range in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located east of Cheakamus Lake at the northeast side of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It has an area of 228 km2 and is a subrange of the Garibaldi Ranges whic ...
which is a subrange of the
Coast Mountains
The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...
.
Precipitation runoff from this mountain's south slope drains into headwaters of the
Cheakamus River
The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...
, whereas the north slope drains to the
Lillooet River via Billygoat Creek. Carcajou Peak is more notable for its steep rise above local terrain than for its absolute elevation as
topographic relief is significant with the summit rising 780 metres (2,560 ft) above the Cheakamus River in and 1,580 metres (5,184 ft) above Billygoat Creek in .
History
The first ascent of the summit was made in 1971 by
John Clarke.
[ The peak was named by John Clarke and in French-speaking parts of Canada, the wolverine is referred to as carcajou. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted on November 28, 1980, by the ]Geographical Names Board of Canada
The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada ...
as submitted in 1978 by Karl Ricker of the Alpine Club of Canada.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Carcajou Peak is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
See also
* Geography of British Columbia
* Geology of British Columbia
References
External links
* Weather
Carcajou Peak
{{Pacific Ranges
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Pacific Ranges
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Coast Mountains
Sea-to-Sky Corridor