Although modest in elevation, relief is significant since Mount Golub rises above tidewater in less than two miles.

[4] Hart submitted the name for consideration following the September 4, 1971, untimely death of Harvey Golub who perished in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 disaster.

[4] That flight, which took all 111 lives aboard, crashed in a canyon approximately seven miles south of his namesake mountain.

[5] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Saint Elias Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.

The month of July offers the most favorable weather for viewing or climbing Mount Golub.