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Mount Vaught
Mount Vaught
	Mount Vaught centered, Stanton Mountain to left
Highest point
Elevation	8,854 ft (2,699 m)
Prominence	1,170 ft (360 m)
Coordinates	48°40′51″N 113°52′26″W / 48.68083°N 113.87389°W
Naming
Etymology	Lawrence O. Vaught
Geography
	Mount Vaught Location in Montana Mount Vaught Location in the United States
Location	Flathead County, Montana, U.S.
Parent range	Livingston Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Cannon, MT
Climbing
Easiest route	Scramble

Mount Vaught (8,854 feet (2,699 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana.^[3] Mount Vaught is just over 2 miles (3.2 km) SSW of Heavens Peak. The mountain is named for Lawrence O. Vaught, a lawyer from Jacksonville, Illinois, who spent many of his summers in Glacier Park and corresponded with George Bird Grinnell, who named many of the features in the park.^[4]

Climate edit

Based on the Köppen climate classification, the peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.^[5] Temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Mount Vaught, Montana". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
^ "Mount Vaught". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
^ Mount Cannon, MT (Map). TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Retrieved January 16, 2019.
^ Through The Years In Glacier National Park An Administrative History, NPS.gov
^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.