Slate Range (Alberta)

{{other uses|Slate Range (disambiguation)}}

{{short description|Mountain range in Alberta, Canada}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name=Slate Range

| photo=Historic Lake Louise Hotel!.jpg

| photo_caption=Mt. Richardson seen from Lake Louise

| country=Canada

| state=Alberta |state_type=Province

| range=Canadian Rockies

| length_km=26| length_orientation=W-E|length_ref=

| width_km =13| width_orientation=N-S|width_ref=

| highest=Mount Richardson

| elevation_m=3086

| elevation_ref=

| prominence_m = 922

| prominence_ref = {{cite bivouac|id=1782|name=Mount Richardson|access-date=2023-07-18}}

| listing = Mountains of Alberta

| coordinates = {{coord|51|29|45|N|116|07|21|W|type:mountain_region:CA-AB_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite cgndb|id=IAEMZ|name=Mount Richardson|access-date=2023-07-18}}

| geology= | period= | orogeny=

| map=Canada Alberta

| map_caption=Location in Alberta

| range_coordinates = {{coord|51|29|46|N|116|07|20|W|type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates_ref =

| topo_maker = NTS | topo_map = {{Canada_NTS_Map_Sheet|82|N|08}}

}}

The Slate Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, located in Banff National Park, Canada. The range is named after slate, the primary composition of the mountains in the area.

The Lake Louise Ski Resort is on the southern slopes of this range.

Peaks

This range includes the following mountains and peaks:

{{#invoke:Mountains Prism|list|m|prom,fa,tcoords

|3086^Mount Richardson

|3059^Ptarmigan Peak

|3053^Pika Peak

|2946^Fossil Mountain

|2902^Redoubt Mountain

|2707^Skoki Mountain

|2695^Anthozoan Mountain

|2682^Lipalian Mountain

|2667^Brachiopod Mountain

|2636^Heather Ridge

|2621^Whitehorn Mountain

}}

{{GeoGroup|section=Peaks}}

See also

References

{{reflist|refs=

{{cite cgndb|id=IAIJJ|name=Slate Range|access-date=2019-06-11}}

{{cite book | title=Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | author=Kane, Alan | chapter = Mount Richardson

| publisher=Rocky Mountain Books|location = Calgary | year=1999|isbn=0-921102-67-4|pages=250}}

{{cite opentopomap|Mount Richardson|51.49597|-116.12120|2023-07-18}}

{{cite peakbagger|rid=141270|name=Slate Range|access-date=2019-06-11}}

{{cite peakfinder|id=51|name=Slate Range|subject=ranges|access-date=2019-06-11}}

}}

{{Canadian Rockies|state=collapsed}}

Category:Mountains of Banff National Park