Water law is a fascinating subject. You can’t just take somebody’s water rights, especially if you live downstream, and this is water that becomes ice and then becomes water again. As the saying goes, better to be upstream with a shovel and a ditch than downstream with a decree. It is the ‘Colorado’ river and it’s headwaters.
We are in a 20 year mega drought and it has become one of the most severe in our climate records. These things precede skiing, and, unfortunately, have been much worse. We only talk about it in terms of climate change when at the core it is just the climate.
I’m riding my bike - I have no reason to make myself sad skiing dirt in December. I have to say that since taking up mountain biking equally to skiing and having access to excellent dry winter riding, my anxiety about snow has gone way down. There will be great turns in spring, there always are.
Right now there are great turns on dirt, you just have to pick which way you’d prefer to access them. We will be right back at last year by the time it maybe snows again…and this is where we had the good early snow. There are other climate zones that are way worse off than this.
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