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Clements Mountain, rising 8,765 feet in Glacier National Park’s Lewis Range, stands west of Logan Pass above the Hidden Lake Trail near the Continental Divide in one of the park’s busiest alpine settings. It was named for Walter M. Clements, who helped establish a treaty through which the Blackfeet sold lands east of the divide to the United States, territory later included in the park. The mountain also reflects the region’s deep geologic history: sedimentary rocks laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic were later shaped by the Lewis Overthrust, which pushed older rock over younger Cretaceous formations. Its alpine subarctic climate brings long snowy winters, short cool summers, and severe cold.
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