The Saratoga Sun -

I eavesdrop when I'm in a restaurant or a bar. It's hard not to hear what others say when they're only a few feet away.

The other day I was in a local restaurant and overheard a conversation between four men and two women about their visit to our Valley. From how they were dressed, it was obvious they had come to enjoy our backcountry and some of the finest snowmobile and cross-country trail, and see some wildlife.

Surprisingly or maybe not, they were complaining. They had arrived just in time for one of our notorious Christmas-time blizzard; those storms we seem to get every year, just in...