Mount Jefferson (Idaho/Montana)

Infobox Mountain
Name = Mount Jefferson


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Elevation = convert|10216|ft cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=PY1196
title = NGS Data Sheet for SAWTELLE
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-08 This bench mark is located on the summit of Mount Jefferson.]
Location = Idaho and Montana. USA
Range = Centennial Mountains, Bitterroot Range
Prominence = convert|3400|ft|m|abbr=on [Key col elevation between 6800 and 6840 feet. cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=5002
title = Mount Jefferson, Idaho/Montana
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-04-08 ]
Coordinates = coord|44.561983|-111.504899|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain |display=title,inline
Topographic
USGS Mount Jefferson
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Easiest route = scramble from Sawtelle Peak

Mount Jefferson is a mountain located on the Continental Divide between Fremont County of northeastern Idaho and Beaverhead County of southwestern Montana. Mount Jefferson is the highest point of the Centennial Mountains, whose crest runs along the Continental Divide and can be climbed using a class 2 route (scramble) from the access road to neighboring Sawtelle Peak.

The south and west slopes of Mount Jefferson drain into Hell Roaring Creek, thence into Red Rock Creek, the Red Rock River, the Beaverhead River, the Jefferson River, the Missouri River, the Mississippi River, and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Brower's Spring, the source of Hell Roaring Creek, on the mountain's east flank in Montana, is considered the absolute headwaters of the Missouri River. [ cite journal
last = Nell
first= Donald F.
coauthors = Anthony Demetriades
url = http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2005/MissouriSource.htm
title = The True Utmost Reaches of the Missouri
journal = Montana Outdoors
publisher = Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
issue = July-August, 2205
year = 2005
accessdate = 2008-04-08 ] The northeast slope of Mt. Jefferson drains into the South Fork of Duck Creek, thence into Henrys Lake, the Henrys Fork of the Snake River, the Columbia River, and into the Pacific Ocean.

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