Running Eagle Falls
Running Eagle Falls, also known as “Trick Falls”, flows off the river between Two Medicine Lake and Lower Two Medicine Lake.
The falls are 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.
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."
From hikingglacier.com
Running Eagle Falls
Running Eagle Falls, also known as “Trick Falls”, flows off the river between Two Medicine Lake and Lower Two Medicine Lake.
The falls are 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.
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."
From hikingglacier.com