Winter is finally getting with the program around here! We got two straight days of snow followed by an evening of single digit temperatures which makes for light, dry powder the consistency talc covering everything like a soft down comforter.
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Over the past month and a half, snowstorms in the Sawatch have been few and far between. Conditions up at Monarch have been an unpleasant combination of wind-blown hardpack and exposed rocks. Not wanting to break bodies or equipment we’ve been doing far less skiing that we had hoped. In fact, over the past two weeks I’ve spent way more time riding my fat bike than my skis. Then on Monday the high country got 5 inches of fresh powder and with the solid base already laid down we headed up to Monarch to check it out.
Continue readingI set out to make this blog a place to share stories of things going on in our lives in Colorado. But damn, the events of the past two weeks, cumulating in the attack on our nation’s capital on Jan 6 make anything I have to say about what’s going on here seem trivial and out of touch. In my life I never thought I’d see armed insurrgents storming our nation’s capital, let alone the president encouraging them to do so. But here we are.
What’s most amazing to me is not that Donny Small Hands is a con man. Everyone knows that. What’s amazing is that so many people fell for the con and so many others either encouraged it or stood by and let it happen. If nothing else, these events are the perfect argument for why we need to be teaching critical thinking in school.
This guy sums it up as well as anyone I’ve heard.
Whoa, two posts in one day! Our snowshoe adventure in the previous post actually happened yesterday but I just got around to organizing photos and posting it. This happened today. I will be returning to my regular haphazard “schedule” starting in 2021 so don’t go getting used to this twice a day thing.
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Colorado Santa Claus sure brings different presents than Texas Santa Claus. I mean, for all I know they’re the same guy. All I know is I never got snowshoes for Christmas in Texas.
Continue readingWhen you come to a Colorado mountain town one of the first things you notice is dogs. Dogs on the trails, dogs waiting on the sidewalk outside shops, dogs lying under tables at open air cafes, and dogs hanging out the window of every other car going down the road. Big dogs, little dogs, pure breeds and mutts.
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Can it really be Christmas already?! In a year of endless blursdays it feels like life is on a loop. So here’s to wrapping up this godawful year and moving on to the hope of 2021.
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I don’t remember exactly when I took up skiing but I think it was sometime around middle school. I certainly didn’t grow up skiing. No one in my family skied so it wasn’t like we were going to Vail every Christmas. It was more like I had seen a few Warren Miller movie clips on TV and the whole thing just looked so cool so I pestered my parents about it like only a pre-teen can pester until they relented.
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The past couple of weeks of unseasonably warm weather had left us wondering if we were really in Colorado or back in Texas. The other possibility was the Earth had broken from its orbit and was hurtling toward the sun, a prospect that wouldn’t be all that surprising given the way 2020 has been going so far.
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