From the Saturday, March 7, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

The Glacier Country Avalanche Center has issued a “high” avalanche advisory for the Glacier National Park and Flathead and Kootenai national forest areas.

“We’re currently rating the avalanche danger as high on those steep, open slopes that have received significant amounts of either precipitated or wind-deposited snow over the last three days,” said Stan Bones, an avalanche specialist with the Flathead Forest.

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