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Amphitheatre Mountain on the left and Kupunkamint on the right... I think.
From summitpost: Amphitheater Mountain is one of the vast majority of Glacier National Park peaks with no established trail to its summit. As is pretty much the norm in this park, initial access to the mountain is via a very good NPS trail, but upon reaching the point at which plans for the day lead "up" (with the trail continuing on, tantalizingly and subversively, further into the mountains), you are, so to speak, on your own.
Kupunkamint: From Jack Holterman's book, Place Names of Glacier National Park. It seems the appellation in use today is a corruption of the original spelling, "Kupumqamik," which was the original name given a relatively obscure mountain—a peak now known as Double Mountain—in the southeast portion of GNP. Here is how Holterman puts it: "The Kootenai name [of Double Mountain] is Kupumqamik, which has now been transferred and misspelled to another mountain still called Kupunkamint, said to mean 'He shakes himself'."
Then, a final tidbit of information about "He shakes himself" declares, "It normally refers to an animal but here it is said to be the name of a man." And that's it; no elucidation of the possibilities inherent in "Double Mountain," or "He shakes himself." So while all this is interesting, and the name is certainly colorful, it seems we're missing enough historical ties that we'll just have to enjoy the current name sans any definitive etymological origin. Or we can simply experience the mountain, and not bother ourselves with the mysteries of what gets called what, and why, and when.
From summitpost: Amphitheater Mountain is one of the vast majority of Glacier National Park peaks with no established trail to its summit. As is pretty much the norm in this park, initial access to the mountain is via a very good NPS trail, but upon reaching the point at which plans for the day lead "up" (with the trail continuing on, tantalizingly and subversively, further into the mountains), you are, so to speak, on your own.
Kupunkamint: From Jack Holterman's book, Place Names of Glacier National Park. It seems the appellation in use today is a corruption of the original spelling, "Kupumqamik," which was the original name given a relatively obscure mountain—a peak now known as Double Mountain—in the southeast portion of GNP. Here is how Holterman puts it: "The Kootenai name [of Double Mountain] is Kupumqamik, which has now been transferred and misspelled to another mountain still called Kupunkamint, said to mean 'He shakes himself'."
Then, a final tidbit of information about "He shakes himself" declares, "It normally refers to an animal but here it is said to be the name of a man." And that's it; no elucidation of the possibilities inherent in "Double Mountain," or "He shakes himself." So while all this is interesting, and the name is certainly colorful, it seems we're missing enough historical ties that we'll just have to enjoy the current name sans any definitive etymological origin. Or we can simply experience the mountain, and not bother ourselves with the mysteries of what gets called what, and why, and when.