Getting to work

My commute to work this summer takes three hours each day. Most people have shorter journeys, but I don’t spend mine driving a car, riding a bus, or sitting in traffic. I walk. A mile and a half of road, then two and a half miles of mountain, climbing from 9500′ to 11600′. This is…

Marmots, copper, and hot sauce

Usually I like seeing marmots. They represent everything I like about the high country out here. But recently our relationship has gotten much worse. The problem happened at 8:28:57 AM on July 1st, when a marmot bit through the sensor cable of the solar radiation probe for my weather station. I had left the cables…