Photo: Multnomah Falls

According to native legends, the princess of a village infected with deadly sickness went to the top of this mountain to pray to the Great Spirit for help. As Gods are wont to do, he advised that she throw herself off as a sacrifice. Her father, the chief of the village, found her body the next day and wept in furious rage. As his tears fall, the mountain began to leak its own waters, which we see now as Multnomah Falls.