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Arts&Entertainment
ADVENTURE
ON THE
BIG SCREEN
Ban Mountain Film Festival screens in Kalispell on Nov. 15 to 16, featuring world’s best lms on mountain sport, culture and environment
BY MOLLY PRIDDY
Jeremy Jones by Je Curley.
COURTESY BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY
LIVING IN THE FLATHEAD Valley means waking up to some of the continent’s most beautiful vistas, lakes, rivers, mountains, and forests. It means people being as excited about ski season as they might be about an upcoming concert, and the tri- age of summer activities, because there’s just so much to do.
And in the calmer time of fall, the Ban Mountain Film Festival comes to town to rev up imaginations and stoke the res of adventure, all from the comfort of a theater seat.
On Nov. 15 and 16, crowds will gather at the Flathead High School auditorium
to watch one of the most annually antici- pated mountain lm festival tours in the world, with each night o ering di erent movies featuring the mountain world, new landscapes and remote cultures, and, of course, adrenaline- lled sports sequences. The lm festival tour will hit about 450 communities in 40 countries when all is said and done.
In Kalispell, it comes courtesy of the Flathead Nordic Backcountry Patrol, a nonpro t group of volunteers trained to respond to any type of winter back- country emergency. Amy Moore of the FNBP said the lm festival is an integral part of the group’s operations, because it
provides funding and exposure. Originally, the FNBP helped Flathead County with search and rescue opera- tions when needed, Moore said, but the group has decided to shift its core toward
education.
“We’ve recently changed our focus just
to education in the valley as far as snow safety and winter travel for all recre- ationalists,” Moore said in an interview last week. “We want to educate people who are traveling in the backcountry.”
The backcountry patrol has noticed more people seem to be taking it upon themselves to travel into the deep snows of the Jewel Basin and the Swan
Mountains, for example, or wandering past the boundary markers on White sh Mountain Resort.
“The thing is, as years go on, there are more and more people exploring the boundaries,” Moore said. “It’s good to have some education. And it’ll be free to people.”
Flathead National Forest, the Flat- head Avalanche Center, and the Friends of the Flathead Avalanche Center have all played and will continue to play big roles in this education, Moore said.
“This money supports not only the seven-day forecast through the Flathead Avalanche Center and Flathead National
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