Mount Cannon, Mountain summit in Glacier National Park, Montana, US
Mount Cannon is a peak in the Lewis Range of Glacier National Park, Montana, reaching 8,956 feet (2,730 m). It is composed of Precambrian to Jurassic sedimentary rock that was uplifted along the Lewis Overthrust fault beginning about 170 million years ago.
Mount Cannon was formerly called Goat Mountain. It was renamed for the physiologist Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon and his wife Cornelia, who made the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1901. The peak rises to 8,956 feet in the Lewis Range of Glacier National Park, Montana.
The name honours physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon and his wife Cornelia, who made the first recorded ascent in 1901; the peak had been called Goat Mountain. The couple's summit register was a bottle, found by later climbers and passed to the National Park Service in 1985.
The standard approach follows the Hidden Lake Trail from Logan Pass, then turns toward the East Ridge. The summit sits at 8,956 feet in a subarctic climate, with long, very cold winters and short, cool to mild summers; wind chill can fall below −30 °F. Snow and weather, not marked trails, set the climbing window.
The first recorded ascent was made in 1901 by physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon and his wife Cornelia, and the mountain was renamed for them; it had previously been called Goat Mountain. The peak rises to 8,956 feet in the Lewis Range.
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