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Last Sunday, I got really excited. Really excited. After waiting all winter for a decent snow storm, it seemed we would finally get our spring upslope snowstorm. Joel Gratz of OpenSnow, wrote of the models that forecast storms, predicting 1-2 feet of new snow, favoring the east side of the…
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As I watched the Colorado Avalanche players whiz around the ice during they playoff game, I couldn’t help but wonder if they didn’t have a distinct advantage. Not an advantage of coaching or superstar players. No, that advantage definitely belonged to the Nashville Predators, conference winners. No, the advantage I…
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A look at the National Weather Service website, provided a rainbow of colors across the state of Colorado — red, pink, orange blotches all dotted the map. What exactly was going on? Such is the state of weather and micro climates in Colorado. At the same time snow fell on…
Continue readingLiving and working in some of the most scenic places in the country has often created challenges during my life. This balancing act began over 20 years ago when I first moved to the Sierra Nevada town of Mammoth Lakes to work for Mammoth Mountain, the local ski resort. Getting…
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