Mount Weed

Mount Weed is a 3,080-metre peak in Banff National Park’s Mistaya River valley, near Mistaya Lake and visible from the Icefields Parkway with nearby Mount Patterson. Named in 1902 by J. Norman Collie for climber George Marsten Weed after their Mount Forbes first ascent that August, the mountain’s name was officially adopted in 1928. Its first recorded ascent came in 1936 with a party led by guide Christian Hasler Jr. Formed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it stands in a subarctic setting of snowy winters and mild summers, with runoff feeding the Mistaya River and the North Saskatchewan watershed.

Alberta · Canada