Mid-October. Fall blasted into our mountain town this early a.m. with an arctic chill as I pulled the mostly dead and dying tomato plants out of our once splendid garden. I tried to save the last few tomatoes but they were greenish and half frozen, oozing juice and probably left out in the mountain cold for two …
Some days I just hate hiking. It doesnt happen often that I have those days but today I had an incident where I dropped my new Patagonia sweater on the trail and had to back track two miles all uphill to go back for it. If it had been any other sweater there was no …