The Lecture Cutters are mountain peaks in
British Columbia, Canada.
Description
The Lecture Cutters is located in the
McBride Range
The McBride Range is a small mountain range in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located east of Cheakamus Lake at the northeast side of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It has an area of 228 km2 and is a subrange of the Garibaldi Ranges whic ...
of the
Coast Mountains
The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...
, and southeast of
Whistler in
Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the third-highest point of the McBride Range.
Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from this mountain's slopes drains into the
Cheakamus River
The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...
. The Lecture Cutters is more notable for its steep rise above local terrain than for its absolute elevation as
topographic relief is significant with the summit rising over 1,200 metres (3,937 ft) above the river in .
Etymology
The mountain's toponym was officially adopted August 27, 1965, by the
Geographical Names Board of Canada
The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada ...
as proposed by Dr. Roy Hooley (1924–1996), Alpine Club of Canada and professor of civil engineering at the University of British Columbia.
He was accustomed to students skipping his classes, especially members of UBC's Varsity Outdoors Club who regularly climbed in the Garibaldi Park area.
[G. P. V. Akrigg, Helen B. Akrigg, ''British Columbia Place Names'', 1997, UBC Press, , p. 151.]
Climate
Based on the
Köppen climate classification, The Lecture Cutters is located in the
marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
Most
weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Coast Mountains where they are forced upward by the range (
orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall. As a result, the Coast Mountains experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. This climate supports the McBride Glacier on the east slope. The months of July and August offer the most favorable weather for climbing The Lecture Cutters.
See also
*
Geography of British Columbia
*
Geology of British Columbia
References
External links
* Weather
The Lecture Cutters
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Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Pacific Ranges
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Coast Mountains
Sea-to-Sky Corridor