Weather or not...

This morning opens up with another “magical winter landscape,” trees covered with delicate white lace and shivering in a temperature well below freezing point. This is in fact the way spring is – most of the time – in our Rocky Mountain region. I like to oversimplify and tell those who ask me: “We just have two seasons in the year; one dry from mid-May to mid-November and another one wet (or snowy) the rest of the year.” Nothing is truer than that, especially after observing nature for over a quarter of a century in Park City.

While Fall season is noticeable because of the colorful and beautiful leaves turning that never fail to repaint our mountain landscapes every September; Spring in fact is a non-entity, a victim of this “bi-polar” season system. The first warm days in March or even April are just teasers and even the true locals always fall for them. You'll see folks wearing shorts and riding bikes, but these audacious attempts never fail to be short-lived. So for the moment, most of us will marvel at the fleeting wintry scene and some crazy (I know who those are) will hit the bottomless new powder snow at a nearby ski resort...