Mount Sarbach
{{short description|Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Sarbach
| photo = Mount_Sarbach.jpg
| photo_caption = Mount Sarbach seen from Mistaya Canyon
| elevation_m = 3155
| elevation_ref = {{cite bivouac|id=1707|name=Mount Sarbach|access-date=2009-01-02}}
| prominence_m = 412
| range = Waputik Mountains
Canadian Rockies
| parent_peak = Mount Chephren (3274 m)
| listing = Mountains of Alberta
| location = Alberta, Canada
| map = Alberta#Canada
| map_caption = Location in Alberta##Location in Canada
| coordinates = {{coord|51|53|34|N|116|46|05|W|type:mountain_region:CA|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref={{cite cgndb|id=IAGLQ|name=Mount Sarbach|access-date=2019-09-14}}
| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|N|15}}
| rock = Sedimentary
| age = Cambrian
| easiest_route = Difficult Scramble
| first_ascent = 1897 by J. Norman Collie, G.P. Baker and Peter Sarbach
}}
Mount Sarbach is a mountain located in Banff National Park between Mistaya River and Howse River and is visible from the Icefields Parkway. The mountain is named after Peter Sarbach, a mountain guide from Switzerland, who guided the first ascent by J. Norman Collie and G.P. Baker in 1897. Mount Sarbach is situated south of Saskatchewan River Crossing, where the Icefields Parkway intersects with the David Thompson Highway.
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Geology
Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Sarbach 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}} A glacier shared with Kaufmann Peaks resides in the southeast cirque.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Sarbach is located in a subarctic climate 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}} Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Sarbach drains into the Mistaya River and Howse River which are both tributaries of the North Saskatchewan River.
See also
References
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{{cite book | title=Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | author=Kane, Alan | chapter = Mount Sarbach
| publisher=Rocky Mountain Books|location = Calgary | year=1999|isbn=0-921102-67-4|pages=303–304}}
}}
External links
- Parks Canada web site: [https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/banff Banff National Park]
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Category:Three-thousanders of Alberta