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28 August 2015

Glacier High should cancel its Smoke Bowl football game

They take football seriously at Glacier High. Too seriously. The Flathead Beacon reports that Bigfork canceled its home football game tonight — but that Glacier High still plans hosting Helena in Kalispell after dinner. The GHS junior varsity game was scheduled to begin half an hour ago. Although the one-hour concentration might drop below 100 µg/m^3 by 1900, the players have been breathing bad air for a week. That has to have a cumulative effect. It’s hard to make a case that Glacier’s officials are making a responsible decision by going forward with the games.

I do not, incidentally, entirely trust the low late afternoon one-hour particulate concentrations for the Flathead. From my vantage point, there’s not been a corresponding improvement in visibility.