Mount Hurd | |
Photo Size: | 270 |
Elevation M: | 3000 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence M: | 355 |
Prominence Ref: | [2] |
Parent Peak: | Mount Vaux |
Listing: | Mountains of British Columbia |
Region Type: | Province |
Region: | British Columbia |
Part Type: | Protected area |
Part: | Yoho National Park |
District: | Kootenay Land District |
Map: | Canada British Columbia#Canada |
Label Position: | left |
Coordinates: | 51.285°N -116.5364°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [3] |
Mount Hurd is a mountain in the Ottertail Range of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia, Canada. It was named after Major Marshall Farnam Hurd (1823-1903) a Canadian Pacific Railway engineer and explorer. It was featured on a 1928 Canada Post 10¢ stamp based on a painting by Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Hurd is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[4] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Hurd drains into tributaries of the Kicking Horse River which is a tributary of the Columbia River.