Bryon and I watched with amusement this past week, as snow was forecast for the mid-Atlantic and New England states — basically the corridor extending from Washington, DC in the south up to Boston in the north. Soon, there were Facebook posts of panic and horror over the snowstorm that would…
Continue readingAs I was reading Denver’s 5280 magazine, I discovered an article about Nederland’s local ski area, Eldora Mountain Resort, and its proposed expansion plan. The writer’s opinion depicted Eldora as more of a local’s place with some beautiful trails, and mused that expanding may take away the local flavor. Of…
Continue readingBeing raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri and then living in the Washington, DC during my twenties, I really wasn’t familiar with small-town living. It wasn’t until I first moved to the mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California that I experienced rural, small-town life first-hand. A place where…
Continue readingYou know that old saying, if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute…. Well, in Colorado, that saying is quite relevant, and was literally true last week. We had experienced a very warm and dry fall right through October and into the first ten days of November. Those of us…
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