Its amazing. This winter with its 19 feet of snow in the town of Gunnison Colorado is all but gone on the major land areas. I can tell from the internet camera on top of Cupula hill.
I was watching the Western State camera cam yesterday and I saw the beginnings of a track meet in mountaineer bowl. The big yellow busses were parked in the union parking lot and there were all kinds of figures around the mountaineer bowl. We are hearing county track meets from our house on the college track too.
The spring at Gunnison is usually marked by patches of gray vegetation after the snow is gone. For awhile the town is awash in puddles. Overall the drainage works like it has for thousands of years. Everything heads for the river and the river flows to the sea or at least to a muddle in Mexicali. It will be awhile before the grasses of Gunnison county are ready to turn green.
The sun can be pretty warm this time of the year. When I lived there it was a classic time. You could ski a few runs in the morning and play tennis with your friends in the afternoon.
There were two very cool things that made playing tennis fun in Gunnison. If you had any serve at all, the high altitude would enhance its speed. The other thing that made tennis fun were the cracks in the tennis court. All tennis courts in Gunnison had these enormous cracks in them. The cracks were formed by the freeze thaw action of the weather and the moisture. Playing off these cracks made a return much more difficult. The tennis ball had a funny skip when they hit these cracks.
Have a great day
: ) Pat
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