Mount Habel

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Mount Habel is a 3,087-metre mountain summit located on the Continental Divide along the border of Alberta and British Columbia in the Waputik Mountains, part of the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1986 after Jean Habel. Jean Habel was a German geographer who explored the Canadian Rockies and in 1897 was the first to set foot on the Wapta Icefield which surrounds Mount Habel. ()

Coordinates: 51°39'7"N, 116°34'16"W

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Mount Habel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bow Glacier Falls, Mount Jimmy Simpson, Portal Peak, Bow Hut.

3.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Bow Glacier Falls, Banff National Park
83 min walk • Bow Glacier Falls is located near Banff, AB. The falls originates from melt water from the Bow Glacier and flows into Bow Lake.
3.7 miNE
Mountain
Mount Jimmy Simpson
94 min walk • Mount Jimmy Simpson is a 2,966-metre summit located 3 kilometres northwest of Bow Lake in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Thompson, 3.0 km to the southwest.
2.5 miE
Mountain
Portal Peak
64 min walk • Portal Peak is a 2,926-metre mountain summit located four kilometers west of Bow Lake in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Thompson, 1.0 km to the northwest. Portal Peak is situated east of the Wapta Icefield, and is a member of the Waputik Mountains.
3.7 miE
Hiking, Alpine hut
Bow Hut, Banff National Park
94 min walk • The Bow Hut is an alpine hut located at an elevation of 2,350 metres on the eastern edge of the Wapta Icefield in Banff National Park.
2.5 miS
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Mount Collie, Yoho National Park
65 min walk • Mount Collie is a mountain in Yoho National Park, located on the western boundary of the Wapta Icefield in Canada. The mountain was named in 1897 by Charles S. Thompson after J. Norman Collie, an accomplished mountaineer and early explorer of the Canadian Rockies.
4.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Olive, Banff National Park
113 min walk • Mount Olive is located on the Continental Divide, on the Alberta-British Columbia border, in both Banff National Park and Yoho National Park. It lies on the eastern edge of the Wapta Icefield, and is part of the Waputik Mountains. It was named in 1898 by H.B. Dixon after his wife Dixon, Olive.
1.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Peyto Glacier, Banff National Park
50 min walk • The Peyto Glacier is situated in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 90 km northwest of the town of Banff, and can be accessed from the Icefields Parkway.
2.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Bow Glacier, Banff National Park
68 min walk • Bow Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 37 km northwest of Lake Louise. It can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway.
1.3 miS
Winter sport, Ski piste
Wapta Glacier
34 min walk • The Wapta ice fields are a series of glaciers popular with climbers on the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The Burgess shale animal Waptia takes its name from these features. Their meltwater feeds the nearby Wapta falls.
2.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Peyto Peak, Banff National Park
58 min walk • Peyto Peak is a mountain in the Waputik Range, part of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada. It lies at the north end of the Wapta Icefield, in Banff National Park, about one km east of the border with British Columbia and 32 km north of the town of Field.
4.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Caldron Peak, Banff National Park
122 min walk • Caldron Peak is a 2,911-metre mountain peak of the Waputik Range, located in Alberta, Canada. It is prominently visible from the Peyto Lake Overlook in Banff National Park. It was named after Caldron Lake which is 3 km from its summit.