Running Eagle Falls

by Robert Bales

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Running Eagle Falls

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Robert Bales

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This is a wonderful falls to visit while in Glacier National Park!!
The trailhead for Running Eagle Falls is located 1.1 miles west of the Two Medicine entrance station.
Running Eagle Falls, also known as �Trick Falls�, flows off the river between Two Medicine Lake and Lower Two Medicine Lake.

The waterfall receives its nickname, "Trick Falls", because there are actually two separate waterfalls in the same location. During the spring run-off water rushes over the top ledge for a 40-foot drop, while obscuring the lower falls. However, by late summer, after the upper falls has dried up, water continues to rush through a sink hole at the top of the cliff before flowing out of an opening in the cliff face, thus creating the lower 20-foot falls.
Towering prominently above the falls is 9513-foot Rising Wolf Mountain, which is named after the first white man to live with the Blackfeet Indians. Hugh Monroe, who was married to Sinopah, received his Indian name as a result of his habit of getting out of bed in the morning on his hands and knees, thus resembling a wolf.
The waterfall is named after Pitamakan, or Running Eagle, a female warrior leader of the Blackfeet Nation in the early 1700s who experienced a four-day vision quest in the mountains high above the falls. Running Eagle led war parties on many highly successful raids, and was the only woman in the Blackfeet tribe ever to do so, or to be given a man's name.

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October 8th, 2014

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