Mount Siyeh, with a height of , is the fifth tallest and one of six peaks over in
Glacier National Park,
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
,
United States
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. Mount Siyeh was named after a
Blackfeet
The Blackfeet Nation ( bla, Aamsskáápipikani, script=Latn, ), officially named the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, is a federally recognized tribe of Siksikaitsitapi people with an Indian reservation in Mon ...
Indian, Sai-yeh, whose name means "Crazy Dog" or "Mad Wolf."
Mount Siyeh stands about two miles east of the
Continental Divide, within the
watershed of the
Saint Mary River, which drains into the
Saskatchewan River
The Saskatchewan River (Cree: ''kisiskāciwani-sīpiy'', "swift flowing river") is a major river in Canada. It stretches about from where it is formed by the joining together of the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan Rivers to Lake Winn ...
, and ultimately into
Hudson Bay.
Mount Siyeh is rather easily accessible from a variety of different routes. It can be ascended via a long scree scramble from the Preston Park area, or from Piegan Pass via Cataract Mountain. The summit can also be reached via a long hiking/mountaineering route dubbed the "Skyline Experience"; this route starts from the Many Glacier Hotel and involves ridge walk and includes the summits of Wynn Mountain () and
Cracker Peak () before reaching the top of Siyeh.
Route Descriptions can be found o
Summitpostor i
A Climbers Guide to Glacier National Park
Geology
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, it is composed of
sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause these particles ...
laid down during the
Precambrian to
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...
periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the
Lewis Overthrust The Lewis Overthrust is a geologic thrust fault structure of the Rocky Mountains found within the bordering national parks of Glacier in Montana, United States and Waterton Lakes in Alberta, Canada. The structure was created due to the collision o ...
fault pushed an enormous slab of
precambrian rocks thick, wide and long over younger rock of the
cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
period.
Climate
Based on the
Köppen climate classification
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, it is located in an alpine
subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.
Winter temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.
Gallery
File:Aerial view of Mount Siyeh.jpg, Aerial view of Mount Siyeh
File:Mount Siyeh.jpg, Mount Siyeh and Preston Park seen from Siyeh Pass
File:Mount Siyeh from Siyeh Bend.jpg, Mount Siyeh from Siyeh Bend along Going-to-the-Sun Road
See also
*
List of mountains and mountain ranges of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
References
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Mountains of Glacier County, Montana
Mountains of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Lewis Range
Mountains of Montana
North American 3000 m summits