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)
Casey Kreider
July 11, 2024
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Like many of Glacier’s waterways, Avalanche Creek has a deadly past
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.