Weeks of untypically warm weather have shocked our mountains with spring-like temps. I grew up here and have never experienced warm winter weather of this intensity and length. But Valentine’s Day was surreal. I joined friends visiting from Jackson for an afternoon climbing rock at the local crag. I actually peeled off the long sleeve shirt I was wearing and climbed in a sports bra….!

As if climbing hot rock in February isn't surreal enough, by the time I got home, made dinner and soaked in my claw foot tub the view from my cabin had transpired back into a winter wonderland since a storm dropped a blanket of snow after the sun went down.