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Mount Custer
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Mount Custer from Summit Lake
Highest point
Elevation 8,888 ft (2,709 m) NAVD 88
Prominence 1,203 ft (367 m)
Parent peak Chapman Peak
Geography
Mount Custer is located in Montana
Mount Custer
Mount Custer
Location in Montana
Mount Custer is located in the United States
Mount Custer
Mount Custer
Location in the United States
Location Flathead County, Glacier County, Montana, U.S.
Parent range Livingston Range
Topo map USGS Mount Carter, MT

Mount Custer (8,888 feet (2,709 m)) is a mountain in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Situated along the Continental Divide, Mount Custer rises more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) above Lake Nooney, located below the summit to the east. Herbst Glacier is immediately northeast of the peak.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Custer has in a subarctic climate characterized by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.

Mount Custer reflected in Cameron Lake
Mount Custer reflected in Cameron Lake

Geology

Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Mount Custer is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long over younger rock of the cretaceous period.

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