Forecast: temps ranging from 31 to 105, with clouds, snow, rain, and clear sky expected

The trip to Saratoga today was pretty great. Coffee on the way out of town, springtime weather, calves in the fields, nobody in giant rush driving like an asshole. Then, a short hike in the Snowies--nothing too ambitious, just trying to get the feel for snowshoes on the steep slopes on melty snow, figuring out how to walk/run/slide/sled downhill without getting too damaged, getting some perfectly fresh mountain air in the lungs. Kaijsa took picture of me:


I need a thought bubble next to my head: "I am king of hill!"

Down the other side of the mountatin we came, walked around a bit at Veteran's Island in Saratoga watching the North Platte coming cold and fast down the channel. Then a quick hot soak in the springs, and lunch at Stumpy's, and a look-around in the Outhouse and the Hat Creek Station before heading back over the hill, through a perfect spring rain, to the Gem City of the High Plains.

Tonight, tuna steak and peas for dinner.

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