From our associate John Oldshue…
“Lots of hiking over the past few days….. Lots of wildflowers and we
finally built a snowman (that the boys promptly tore apart)…The
parents got to go on a hike together yesterday as we had a babysitter
and we did a pretty tough 5 mile round trip hike from the forest to up
above tree line in to the tundra…saw lots of elk and got a beautiful
sunset on the mountains…we had a good bit of sleet fall on us during
the hike…we had a recored temperature drop yesterday during a rain
storm…it dropped 25 degrees in 3 minutes…because the air is so dry
when it starts to rain you usually get a temperature drop due to
evaporational cooling…the same concept that makes your skin cool
after you sweat and blow air across it…as water evaporates and
changes state between liquid and gas it takes heat with it and you get
the temperature drop…sorry for the nerd lecture….hope all is
well…”
