Micro-climate or micro-calendar? What do you call it when a mountain blocks sunrise or sunset? Think of it as a mercifully early September, the fantasy of a mid-summer sufferer. The late sunrise from one of these mountains fooled me one morning. I should have started my bike ride even earlier because we had some climbing to do before making it to "[redacted] Summit." It is funny how specialized an outdoorsman can be. I was hoping for lots of climbing in middle gears, and I got it. The irrigated fields had tall green hay. Grasslands are rare and precious in the western mountain states. Have you ever seen a hatch of "Mormon crickets?" They are a type of grasshopper, I suppose. Fat and black. They cannibalized the smooshed ones. I tried to avoid smooshing them with my bicycle tires, but it was impossible to avoid them all. Looking at them more carefully, there also seemed to be a lot of copulation goi...
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