A long week
Shirttail Peak last Sunday
Well this has been a long work week and I wasn’t motivated enough to post anything earlier, but now it’s Friday!
Last weekend we were in town and planned on going Nordic skiing at Eldora on Sunday. But after breakfast it was just too spring-like in town to even consider going up to the cold snow and so we did a short hike on some trails just south of Eldorado Springs. It was a good choice, very low-key and uncrowded. This is in contrast with popular areas like Chatauqua or Mount Sanitas, where it would have been difficult to find a parking space on Sunday within a half mile of the traiheads. It was a beautiful day.
I had the day off on Monday and did end up going to Eldora to skate ski. The weather was terrible! It was about 15 degrees with high wind. Track conditions were better than last month but not by much. The tracks were icy and thin. I was able to get in a good hour of skating, though.
Here is another article about charging search and rescue victims to recover some of the costs for the operations. It is highly unlikely this will ever happen in Colorado due to the volunteer nature of rescue groups. This kind of story is reported in the media every so often anyway, probably because it generates strong feelings, mainly indignation from those who aren’t fully aware of all the issues. I’ll write some more about this subject in the future. There is a quote from a friend from RMR, Dan Lack (who is incorrectly identified as belonging to “Rocky Mountain Rescue Association,” a non-existent entity). Dan, by the way, is the crazy Australian who suggested the title Playing for Real for my book in 2006.
We finally got a significant snowfall in Boulder from an upslope storm this week. It dumped about 5 inches in town near the foothills. Kind of feels like winter again!
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Dan Lack is the President of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Mountain Rescue Association. Obviously too wordy an organization name for that reporter.