Photo: Looking west up the Cummings Creek and Telford Creek Valleys to Mount Washburn from the Elk Valley Road
Mount Washburn
- 3039 m (9,971ft)
- Naming History
49.7936N -115.090W
Located west of the Elk Valley and east of Bull Creek Valley at the heads of Burns Creek, Telford Creek, and Cummings Creek
Province: BC
Headwater: Kootenay
Located west of the Elk Valley and east of Bull Creek Valley at the heads of Burns Creek, Telford Creek, and Cummings Creek
Province: BC
Headwater: Kootenay
Year Named: 1964
Named for: Washburn, Flying Officer Dean J. (Twenty-four year old F/O Washburn, of Fernie, BC, was diving and firing at an enemy vehicle when his No. 438 Squadron Typhoon aircraft was hit by flak and he was killed on December 24, 1944. WW II)
Named for: Washburn, Flying Officer Dean J. (Twenty-four year old F/O Washburn, of Fernie, BC, was diving and firing at an enemy vehicle when his No. 438 Squadron Typhoon aircraft was hit by flak and he was killed on December 24, 1944. WW II)
Looking southwest to Mount Washburn (dome-shaped at centre) and Mount Gydosic (right) (courtesy Allan Schierman)
Looking east to Mount Washburn (courtesy Allan Schierman)