I found myself in Westcliffe yesterday.  It’s just flat-out gorgeous up there right now. There’s lots of snow, lots of water, and lots of greenery to be had.

I asked a woman from town if she’d ever seen so much snow on the Sangre de Cristo peaks so late in June. “Nope,” she said, “not in 31 years.”

Lucky me.

Water runs off the Sangre de Cristo Mountains