Christina Adele Warburg-HonExplorer
Resident of Glacier National Park. Lover of Hot Cheetos and Dresses. Also, mountains.
Four Wheel Drive and then Hike to Historic Mann Gulch
Helena, Montana
2.4 mi
/ 1535 ft gain
In 1949, a fire started in a remote area of the Gates of the Mountains wilderness, a gulch east of the Upper Missouri River. Fifteen smokejumpers were dropped in to fight it. Thirteen died. The United States Forest Service drew lessons from the tragedy of the Mann Gulch fire by designing new training techniques and safety measures that developed how the agency approached wildfire suppression. T...
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