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Mount Hurd
Mount Vaux from Emerald Lake.jpg
Mt. Vaux centered with Mt. Hurd furthest right in this view from Emerald Lake
Highest point
Elevation 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
Prominence 355 m (1,165 ft)
Parent peak Mount Vaux
Geography
Mount Hurd is located in British Columbia
Mount Hurd
Mount Hurd
Location in British Columbia
Mount Hurd is located in Canada
Mount Hurd
Mount Hurd
Location in Canada
Location Yoho National Park
British Columbia, Canada
Parent range Canadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82N07

Mount Hurd is a Canadian mountain in the Ottertail Range of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. 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.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Hurd is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. 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.

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