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I pulled out my fire boxes the other day. “Fire boxes” being the tote boxes filled with person mementos to save from a fire. As I pulled out the photos, newspaper clipping and Christmas ornaments, I spied something curious in the bottom. A wooden plaque with a small, tinkling bell…
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With trepidation, I headed down through the moguls. After suffering through a bullet-proof run, where my edges had no bite, I wasn’t eager to repeat the experience. To my delight, I found them to be soft and forgiving. Nirvana! I’d found the sweet spot. But only suffering through some scary…
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“My question is, what if there is an emergency situation, like someone has a heart attack, or there is a fire. What is the plan?” “There is no plan.” What? Did I hear that right? Having been through the ordeal of The Cold Springs Wildfire, a contingency plan for emergencies…
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If you fly over the Rocky Mountains along the Front Range, you’ll see amoeba-shaped blobs of water dotting the landscape. But most of those blobs aren’t natural lakes, they are instead reservoirs. In fact, my hometown of Nederland, Colorado is perched upon the shores of Barker Reservoir. Reservoirs and the…
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