Mount Galatea
{{short description|Mountain in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Galatea
| photo = Mount Galatea.jpg
| photo_caption = Mount Galatea from Galatea Lakes in July 2007
| elevation_m = 3185
| prominence_m = 1280
| range = Canadian Rockies, Kananaskis Range
| parent_peak =
| listing = Mountains of Alberta
| location = Alberta, Canada
| map = Alberta
| map_caption = Location in Alberta
| coordinates = {{coord|50|50|23|N|115|16|26|W|type:mountain_region:CA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = {{cite cgndb|id=IAFWW|name=Mount Galatea|accessdate=2019-08-25}}
| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|J|14}}
| first_ascent = 1930 by Katie Gardiner, guided by Walter Feuz
| easiest_route = South Face: difficult scrambling
}}
Mount Galatea is the highest peak of the Kananaskis Range, a subrange of the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta. It is located in the upper Spray Lakes Valley of the Kananaskis Country system of provincial parks. The mountain was named after the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Galatea.{{cite book|title=Place-names of Alberta|year=1928|publisher=Geographic Board of Canada|location=Ottawa|page=55|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070267029&view=1up&seq=59}}
Geology
Mount Galatea is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.{{Belyea-Banff-NP}} Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.{{cite book|title=Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias |author=Gadd, Ben |year=2008}}
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Galatea is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 | pages = 1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P | issn = 1027-5606}} Winter emperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
Gallery
File:Mount Galatea, from Tent Ridge.jpg|West aspect of Mount Galatea viewed from Tent Ridge
References
{{reflist|refs=
{{cite bivouac|id=1448|name=Mount Galatea|accessdate=2019-08-25}}
{{cite map|publisher=Gem Trek Publishing|cartography=|title=Canmore and Kananaskis Village | section=D3
| date=1998|scale=1:50,000|isbn=1-895526-22-1|url=https://www.gemtrek.com/maps/canmore-kananaskis-map/|access-date=2019-08-25}}
{{cite book | title=Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | author=Kane, Alan | chapter = Mount Galatea
| publisher=Rocky Mountain Books|location = Calgary | year=1999|isbn=0-921102-67-4|pages=100–101}}
{{cite peakfinder|id=530|name=Mount Galatea|access-date=2019-08-25}}
{{cite book | title = A Climber's Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada
| author1 = Thorington, J. Monroe | publisher = American Alpine Club | isbn = 978-1376169003
| others = With the collaboration of Putnam, William Lowell
| year = 1966 | orig-year = 1921 | page = 56 | chapter = Spray River : East | edition = 6th}}
}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140209/http://www.fresh-oxygen.com/vern/scrambles/galatea/galatea.html Fresh-Oxygen] - route beta, photos
{{Canadian Rockies|state=collapsed}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galatea}}