In his latest column for Colorado Central, also available through High Country News, my neighbor Hal Walter faces winter claustrophobia, growing older with snow shovel in hand, and a friend's falling sick during a snowstorm.
This winter’s series of snowstorms has sent me shoveling day after day, and for some reason now that I am 47, this doesn’t seem as much fun as it did when I first moved to the mountains. While my neighbors gear up with snow-blowers, truck-mounted snow blades and tractors, small and large, I shovel away, wondering how much of this stuff has to fall to stockpile enough water for summer.
When not snowed in, Hal is a serious competitor in the Colorado niche sport of pack-burro racing and also writes about it.
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