Photo: Looking southeast to Mount Ogden from the Yoho Lake trail
Mount Ogden
- 2695 m (8,842ft)
- Naming History
- Hiking and Trails
51.4614N -116.409W
Located in the upper Kicking Horse River Valley between the Yoho Valley and Sherbrook Lake
Province: BC
Park: Yoho
Headwater: Columbia
Major Valley: Kicking Horse
Visible from Highway: 1
Located in the upper Kicking Horse River Valley between the Yoho Valley and Sherbrook Lake
Province: BC
Park: Yoho
Headwater: Columbia
Major Valley: Kicking Horse
Visible from Highway: 1
Year Named: 1916
Named for: Ogden, Isaac Gouverneur (Isaac Ogden was an auditor and vice president with the CPR.)
Named for: Ogden, Isaac Gouverneur (Isaac Ogden was an auditor and vice president with the CPR.)
Popular Hike: Emerald Lake/Yoho Valley
The lower of the two spiral tunnels passes within this mountain. The tunnel is 887 metres long and the elevation difference between the upper and lower entrance is 15 metres. The interior of Mount Ogden was once the venue for a piano concert. A railway employee had been transferred and decided to move his small piano by loading it aboard a small push car. As he coasted through the lower tunnel he played his piano, much to the surprise of another railway employee who was patrolling the tunnel, watching for rockfall. [Canadian Pacific's Big Hill -Floyd Yeats]