Talk:Mount Waddington

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[edit] Precipitation claim

I took out these two conflicting claims (both uncited) about precipitation levels:

... although higher-rainfall locations exist elsewhere, such as at Mount Washington and in other locations on Vancouver Island and in the Canadian Cascades. Whoever posted this doesn't know what they are talking about. Mount Waddington precipitation is much higher than you would find in the Canadian Cascades or Vancouver Island's Mount Washington.

Can someone find a source for either claim? Or for the claim that I left in the article? -- Spireguy (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Mount Washington's often-high snowfall is often cited in BC "geomythography" and it may be true; of course there's no weather station on the top of Waddington or elsewhere in the depths of the Coast Mountains to compare with; but apparently Washington gets the full brunt of open-Pacific weather and, like its countepart in the Adirondacks, has topography that captures bad weather "just so". The stats are probably around to back this up, it's an often-mentioned claim about Mount Washington; but then again it's only data, and the data is incomplete because there are no measurement systems in situ like there is at the ski resort. And yeah, pockets of the Canadian Cascades, particularly Coquihalla Pass and I think the Sumallo get extremely heavy precipitation (especially all at once); ditto with the southern Lillooet Ranges and the Douglas Ranges;upper Stave River valley, also the upper Pitt (where there's a pass with the charming and omionous name of Rain Door Pass. There's data on the Coquihalla summit going way back because of it being part of the southern mainline of the CPR.Skookum1 (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Old standard elevation

I realize that in the days of satellite surveys and TRIM measurements/data the new metric elevation is standard and the conversion comes out at what it comes out at now. But for years upon years BC maps, including the widely-circulated BC road maps produced by the Ministry of Tourism (or was it Highways?) showed Waddington at 13,177. Anyone have any idea when this elevation was dispensed with? - 13,181 vs 13,177 is only 2' of difference....one good snowfall.Skookum1 (talk) 22:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)