Rising Wolf Mountain
{{short description|American mountain}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Rising Wolf mountain
| photo = Glacier National Park Lower Medicine Lake - panoramio - Jim Helvey.jpg
| photo_caption = Rising Wolf Mountain seen from Lower Two Medicine Lake
| elevation_ft = 9513
| elevation_ref = {{cite peakbagger|pid=4824|name=Rising Wolf Mountain, Montana|accessdate=October 5, 2014}}
| prominence_ft = 2873
| range = Lewis Range
| parent_peak = Blackfoot Mountain
| listing = Mountains in Glacier County, Montana
| location = Glacier County, Montana, U.S.
| map = Montana#USA
| relief = 1
| map_caption = Location in Montana##Location in the United States
| coordinates = {{coord|48|29|46|N|113|24|58|W|type:mountain_region:US-MT_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=775784|name=Rising Wolf Mountain|accessdate=October 5, 2014}}
| topo = USGS Mount Rockwell, MT
| first_ascent = 1923 (Norman Clyde)
| easiest_route = Scramble
}}
Rising Wolf Mountain - Mah-kwi-i-po-ats-ists (Wolf Rising Mountain), ({{convert|9513|ft|m|0}}) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana.{{cite map|publisher=TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps)|title=Mount Rockwell, MT|url=http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=48.49608&lon=-113.41621&datum=nad83&zoom=4|accessdate=October 5, 2014}} The peak is in the southeastern section of the park and rises dramatically above the Two Medicine region and more than {{convert|4450|ft|abbr=on}} above Two Medicine Lake immediately to the south. The Blackfeet consider the Two Medicine region of the park to be sacred ground and their name for the peak, "Mah-kwi-i-po-ats-sin", meaning, The way the wolf gets up, was later translated to the current name of the mountain.{{cite web|title=Rising Wolf Mountain|publisher= Summitpost|url=http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/219423/rising-wolf-mountain.html|accessdate=October 5, 2014}}
Rising Wolf Mountain was named after Hugh Monroe, a fur trader who lived with the Pikunis and gave him the name Rising Wolf. After his death, his close friend and author James Willard Schultz named the peak after Monroe.{{cite book|last=Schultz|first=James Willard|title=Rising Wolf-The White Blackfeet, Hugh Monroe's Story of his first year on the plains|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|location=Boston, MA|year=1919|url=https://archive.org/download/risingwolfwhiteb00schu/risingwolfwhiteb00schu.pdf}}
Climate
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.{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 | pages = 1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |s2cid=9654551 | issn = 1027-5606| doi-access = free }} Temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.
Geology
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, the peak 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 {{convert|3|mi|km|1|abbr=on}} thick, {{convert|50|mi|km}} wide and {{convert|160|mi|km}} long over younger rock of the cretaceous period.{{cite journal|title=Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias |author=Gadd, Ben |year=2008}}
Gallery
File:Rising Wolf Mountain, south aspect.jpg|South aspect
File:Rising Wolf Mountain.jpg|Summit of Rising Wolf Mountain as seen from Two Medicine Lake
File:Rising Wolf Mountain summit from south.jpg|Closer summit image from the south
File:Rising Wolf Mountain GNP.jpg|Rising Wolf Mountain, summit to left
File:Rising Wolf Mountain in Glacier National Park.jpg|Rising Wolf Mountain, summit to left
File:Rising Wolf Mountain, northwest.jpg|Northwest aspect
File:Rising Wolf Mountain, east aspect.jpg|East aspect in winter