Mount Carr is a mountain

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located in

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, Canada.

Description

Mount Carr is set within Garibaldi Provincial Park and is part of the Garibaldi Ranges of the

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. It is situated north of

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and south-southeast of

line parent A peak's line parent is the closest higher peak on the highest ridge leading away from the peak's "key col". A col is the lowest point on the ridge between two summits and is roughly synonymous with pass, gap, saddle and notch. The highest col ...

Castle Towers Mountain Castle Towers Mountain is a triple summit mountain on the east side of Garibaldi Lake in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The first ascent party from the BC Mountaineering Club named the mountain after its appearance in August 1911. Clima ...

. Precipitation runoff and glacial

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from the west side of the peak drains to

Garibaldi Lake Garibaldi Lake is a turquoise-coloured alpine lake in British Columbia, Canada, located north of Squamish and south of Whistler. The lake lies within Garibaldi Provincial Park, which features mountains, glaciers, trails, forests, flowers, m ...

, and the eastern slope drains to Cheakamus Lake.

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is significant as the summit rises 1,440 meters (4,724 feet) above Isosceles Creek in 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).

History

The peak is named after Frank Edward Carr (1886–1915), Vancouver post office clerk and British Columbia Mountaineering Club executive member, who served with the 7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, in Canada, England and France during World War I. He was killed in action April 26, 1915, in France and is commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. The toponym was officially adopted September 2, 1930, by the

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. The

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of Mt. Carr, which at the time was known as Copper Peak, was made in 1911 by a large BC Mountaineering Club party including Don Munday.Dick Culbert (1969), ''A Climber's Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia'', Alpine Club of Canada, p. 136Kathryn Bridge (2006), ''A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday'', Rocky Mountain Books, , p. 224

Climate

Based on the

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, Mount Carr is located in the

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climate zone of western North America. Most

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s originate in the

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, and travel east toward the Coast Mountains where they are forced upward by the range (

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), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall. As a result, the Coast Mountains experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. This climate supports the Sphinx Glacier on the west slope, Gray Glacier on the east, and the Cheakamus Glacier on the north slope.

Gallery

File:Phyllis's Engine and Mount Carr.jpg, Phyllis's Engine (lower left) and Mount Carr (upper right) File:Davidson, Carr, Castle Towers.jpg, Mount Davidson (left), Mount Carr (center) above Cheakamus Glacier, and Castle Towers Mountain (right). North aspect. File:Mount Carr N.jpg, North aspect above Cheakamus Glacier, viewed from Whistler Mountain File:Phyllis's Engine.jpg, Mt. Carr (top, right of center) with Phyllis's Engine, centered, viewed from west summit of Castle Towers Mountain. File:Garibaldi Lake 2.jpg, Castle Towers Mountain (left of center), Phyllis's Engine (center), Mt. Carr (right) viewed from Garibaldi Lake.

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