It looks like the timing is off on these photos again as this is at the drainage which was probably ten minutes earlier than the photo. A little different sky than when we came in a couple days earlier: [ photo ] . This is looking north at Kupunkamint Mountain. 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.