Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter in the Mountains
A hike last weekend reminded me how the seasons all collide together in the mountains. This time of the year, it is spring! You can tell because the skunk cabbage and trillium are just starting to bloom, the lady fern is unfurling its fronds, and the creeks and waterfalls are swollen with snowmelt.
No, wait, it is summer. The sure sign is the alpine fields covered in wildflowers and that honeyed-sweet smell that the air gets as you cross a high elevation meadow.
Just kidding! It's fall. A crisp breeze blows down the valley forcing you to shrug on a sweater.
Wait, it's winter. Snow fields dot the landscape starting at surprisingly low elevations and then, completely consume the trail so that the only choice is to turn back toward home. It is my favorite season in the mountains: Spring/Summer/Winter.
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