Mount Loudon

Mount Loudon is a 3,221-metre peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rising above the North Saskatchewan River valley in the Siffleur Wilderness Area and visible from the David Thompson Highway. Named by Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison P. Bridgland for University of Toronto geologist William James Loudon, it received official approval in 1957, though its first recorded ascent came only in 1972 by Ann Ridley and Tony Daffern. Built of sedimentary rock from the Precambrian through Jurassic periods and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it stands in a harsh subarctic environment, with runoff draining into tributaries of the North Saskatchewan River.

Alberta · Canada