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Avalanche Kills St. Maries Snowmobiler

Funeral services for the St. Maries man killed in an avalanche near Superior, Mont. over the weekend are Saturday. Twenty-nine year old T.J. Grieser was snowmobiling with a group of family and friends around 6 p.m. Saturday in a basin near Missoula Lake in the Lolo National Forest when the accident occurred. The area is located approximately 20 miles southwest of Superior on the Montana-Idaho border. “One member of the group was at the bottom of the basin (near Oregon Peak) and three members were on top of a ridge when they started coming down one at a time,” as stated in a press release from the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office. “The victim (Mr. Grieser) was the last of the three to come down the mountain and, according to witnesses at the bottom of the hill, the avalanche started as he was coming down the hill”/Chris D'Angelo, St. Maries Record-Gazette. More here.



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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