Like many of Glacier’s waterways, Avalanche Creek has a deadly past
Visitors take photographs of the gorge section along Avalanche Creek on the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on Thursday, July 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Avalanche Creek rushes through the gorge near the start of the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on Thursday, July 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Avalanche Creek rushes through the gorge near the start of the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on Thursday, July 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Visitors take photographs of the gorge from the footbridge over Avalanche Creek at the start of the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on Thursday, July 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Charles Green was working as a Civilian Conservation Corps supervisor in Glacier National Park in 1941 when he was called to retrieve a body from Avalanche Creek. In his book “Montana Memories, Volume IV” he describes the gorge in all its beauty and danger.
“A half mile up from the campground the creek enters a gorge with solid rock walls up to 30 feet high, and the water roars down through this canyon to level out at the campground,” Green wrote.
His memoir includes a search and rescue call for a North Dakota woman who fell into the creek while hiking with her nephew. She reportedly had walked out on a log to take his photo, which proved a deadly mistake.
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