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Guard Mountain is a 2,177-metre peak in British Columbia's Garibaldi Provincial Park, on the southeast side of Garibaldi Lake in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains. About 70 kilometres north of Vancouver, it rises steeply above the lake, gaining roughly 700 metres in just one kilometre, and its runoff drains into the lake. The Sphinx Glacier occupies its east side. The mountain's name was officially adopted on October 4, 1932. Its marine west coast climate brings heavy precipitation and abundant winter snow as Pacific weather systems rise over the Coast Mountains, with severe cold and wind chill helping maintain its glacier and alpine setting.
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