{"id":1299,"date":"2010-02-02T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2010-02-02T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:37:00","slug":"celebrating-the-season-however-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Season, However You Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Hill has her annual Brigid Poetry Festival<\/a> going\u2014check the comments for linkage.<\/p>\n

Me, I just had to get Out<\/i><\/b>. Cabin fever was setting in, and walking the dogs close to home or going up on the ridge to cut firewood just was not curing it.<\/p>\n

So we strapped the touring skis to the Jeep, loaded the dogs, and drove up to a higher, snowier place to ski a few miles, get sunburnt, and have one minor dog incident when they discovered a partly eaten snowshoe hare (maybe a bobcat’s leavings).<\/p>\n

Naturally they ate it. They need to demonstrate now and then that they understand that dog food does not always come in cans and sacks. <\/p>\n

We stopped at Amicas <\/a>in Salida for pizza. I found myself watching a grey-haired couple waiting to order. He looked to be in his eighties, yet he was wearing  up-to-date “powder overalls” (like this<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I wondered if he just wore them for practical reasons, or was he someone who tore up the slopes at A-Basin or Winter Park in his younger years? Or even one of the fast-dwindling group of old men<\/a> who wear sun-faded 10th Mountain Division patches sewn to the sleeves of high-tech ski jackets?<\/p>\n

The earth keeps spinning. <\/p>\n

After a couple of pints of Headwaters IPA <\/a> (me) and some cabernet sauvignon (her) and sufficient pizza, we feed some crust to the dogs back in the Jeep, as a promise of the dinner (from a sack) waiting for them at home.<\/p>\n

We started down the canyon of the Arkansas River, and M. remarked that it was not yet dark at 5:30 p.m.  <\/p>\n

The earth keeps spinning, whirling us on to the next thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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