It’s been a dire news month, given the COVID-19 global pandemic on our doorstep, leading otherwise mostly sane people to doom surf the latest statistics at bedtime and sleep badly later on.

In Ouray, it’s the beginning of mud season, though spring did offer a lovely debut performance during the first 17 days of March. Our average daytime temperatures soared nearly 5 degrees above normal (49.4 vs 44.6 degrees), while the nights were even more balmy at 7 degrees above (29.4 vs 22.4). This high ...