The library wasn’t open when I went to make copies of my statement to the Colorado Civil Rights division, so I took Noah for a walk out by St. Louis Creek. There was some mining done there during Colorado’s gold and siver rush days, but it was used more by logging interests. In fact, during W.W. II., the German prisoners from Camp Hale were brought in to help cut trees. It is better known because of General, and then President Eisenhower’s use of the Fraser Valley as his “Western White House”, loving to come here to relax, fish, paint, fish, practice his culinary skills, fish, and , well, fish every chance he could, to the point of being accused in the press of letting Nixon and others run the country while he was in “Denver,fishing”. It was so amazingly warm, at least in the sun, but I found more and more snow as I started to climb in elevation. I could also here the intermitant sound of the gunfire of hunters off in the distance. This weather must be upsetting to them It is so much easier totrack game with snow on the ground, the fresher the better! But snow or no snow, along with the gunfire there is a crispness in the air that makes it hard to deny what time of year it is, and that those “white blankets” are not far away…