Beltane Running Creeks Moon
The beauty of a mountain morning. The rising sun catches the peaks of Conifer and Black Mountains, the lodgepole and aspen still punctuated by a web of snowy lanes.
Someone has cut five long ski runs down the face of Black Mountain. The land is private, employees of the Arapaho National Forest confirmed this in an e-mail. These ski runs, all beginning at around 10,000 feet, still have snow cover.
Using Jefferson County property maps the name of the owner of much of the land seems to be Jeffery Lysol, a vice-president for Armstrong Oil and Gas, based in Littleton. He is a skier, biker and runner according to his facebook page. Private ski-runs, Jon says, are not unusual in Colorado.
Business meeting this morning, then back to limbing. This will be a chainsaw week since I want to finish our fire mitigation before Memorial Day.
