Visitor from Colorado drowns in North Fork

For those of you wondering about the radio traffic, a visiting Colorado man drowned in the North Fork just south of Camas Creek yesterday. North Valley Rescue supported the recovery efforts . . .

A 67-year-old man from Colorado who was visiting family in Whitefish drowned Tuesday while fishing in the North Fork Flathead River.

Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said the man was wearing waders and fishing with a relative near the river’s confluence with Camas Creek when the two got separated by a bend in the river. “The local guy went to look for the other guy who was just downstream and could not find him,” Curry said.

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