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Is the Ski Season in Jeopardy?

“Maybe there won’t be a ski season” I texted to my friend Kate. Six years ago on a lark, I became a ski instructor. I never planned to teach skiing. But one day in the fall of 2015, I got an email from Winter Park Resort. “Ski Instructors Needed, No…

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Stay Away!

Note: This post is courtesy of local Nederland resident, John MacKay. We lost our home and most of our things in the Cold Springs Fire. Thankfully, we were in Florida at the time, safe with our dog and three cats. By the time we got to Nederland, kind people had…

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Adapting

“So how are you doing up there in Walden?” “Well, we’re hanging in there. But we’ve got all our stuff packed, in case we need to evacuate.” “Yes, us as well. You can never be too careful right now.” It’s been the season of never-ending wildfires. As we try to…

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The Never-ending Wildfire Season

It never ends. Any other year, at mid-October, we’d be enjoying snow on the ground right now. And colder temperatures and anticipating the start of winter. But not in 2020. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, another wildfire broke out today — just about 10 miles north…

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