Morro Peak is a small mountain summit located in
Jasper National Park
Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains spanning . It was established as a national park in 1930 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Its locatio ...
in
Alberta
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, Canada. It is located at the northwest end of the
Colin Range
The Colin Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located directly northeast of the Jasper townsite in Jasper National Park, Canada.
List of Mountains
This range includes the following mountains:
See also
* Ranges of the Canadian Ro ...
, which is a sub-range of the
Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies (french: Rocheuses canadiennes) or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. It is the easternmost par ...
. The peak is situated north of the municipality of
Jasper
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics of jasper and related rocks. – Archaeometry Workshop, 7, 3, 209-213PDF/ref> ...
, and is a prominent landmark in the
Athabasca Valley
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Athabasca may a ...
visible from
Highway 16
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and the
Canadian
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. The nearest higher peak is
Hawk Mountain
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, to the southeast.
[ Morro Peak was named in 1916 by Morrison P. Bridgland for the Spanish word ''morro'', meaning ''rounded hill'', which is an apt description of it.][ Bridgland (1878-1948) was a ]Dominion Land Survey
The Dominion Land Survey (DLS; french: links=no, arpentage des terres fédérales, ATF) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile (2.6 km2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout ...
or who named many peaks in Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1956 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada
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Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification
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, Morro Peak is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C. In terms of favorable weather, June through September are the best months to climb. Precipitation runoff
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from Morro Peak flows into the Athabasca River
The Athabasca River (French: ''Rivière Athabasca'') is a river in Alberta, Canada, which originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than before emptying into Lake Athabasca. Much of the land along its banks is p ...
.
See also
* Geography of Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for ; to the east at 110° west by t ...
References
Gallery
File:Jasper (51632691865).jpg, Morro Peak, south aspect
File:Morro Peak.jpg, Morro Peak to the right
External links
* Weather forecast
Morro Peak
* Parks Canada web site
Jasper National Park
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One-thousanders of Alberta
Canadian Rockies
Mountains of Jasper National Park
Alberta's Rockies