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Mount Henkel is an 8,774-foot peak in Glacier National Park’s Lewis Range, just south of Kennedy Lake in one of the park’s rugged interior mountain landscapes. Like many Glacier mountains, it consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas. Its present shape is linked to the Lewis Overthrust, which began about 170 million years ago when a vast mass of older Precambrian rock was pushed over younger Cretaceous rock. The mountain lies in an alpine subarctic climate zone marked by long, snowy winters, cool to warm summers, and severe cold and wind chill even during summer.
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