Mount Woolley
{{Short description|Mountain in Alberta, Canada}}
{{For|the New Zealand mountain|Mount Woolley (New Zealand)}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Woolley
| photo = Mt. Wooley.JPG
| photo_caption = East face of Wooley
| elevation_m = 3405
| elevation_ref = {{cite peakfinder |id=1551|name=Mount Woolley |access-date=2007-09-10}}{{cite opentopomap|Mount Woolley|52.29641|-117.42651|2023-07-18}}
| prominence_m = 565
| prominence_ref = {{cite bivouac|id=114|name=Mount Woolley|access-date=2007-09-10}}
| range = Winston Churchill Range
| parent_peak = Mount Alberta (3619 m)
| listing = Mountains of Alberta
| country = Canada | region_type = Province | region = Alberta
| part_type = Protected area | part = Jasper National Park
| map = Canada Alberta#Canada
| map_caption = Location in Alberta
| map_size = 250
| label_position = right
| coordinates = {{coord|52|17|50|N|117|25|31|W|type:mountain_region:CA-AB_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref={{cite cgndb|id=IAAAQ|name=Mount Woolley|access-date=2023-07-18}}
| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|83|C|6}}
| first_ascent = July 28,1925, by a Japanese team (Six Japanese men including Yūkō Maki and three men from Switzerland)
| easiest_route = Rock/snow climb
}}
Mount Woolley is a mountain in Alberta, Canada, located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km south of Diadem Peak and is part of Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies.
History
The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Herman Woolley. Woolley, a former football player, climbed extensively with Collie during his 1898 and 1902 expeditions into the Canadian Rockies.
The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita and N. Okabe. They were guided by Hans Fuhrer, H. Kohler and J. Weber.
Geology
Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from 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 Woolley 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. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 | pages = 1633–1644 | issn = 1027-5606}} Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.
See also
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References
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Category:Three-thousanders of Alberta