Moving from Ohio in 1969 to Colorado Springs, I have never in my life ever gone a season/year without seeing snow — until now. Having just celebrated my first full year in Phoenix, Arizona, I have for the first time in my life gone the longest time without seeing or enjoying the great feeling of Colorado SNOW. I miss it. A little. (smile)

There was nothing like the impending approach of a winter storm, promising 20 to 30 inches! Those were typically what on the Front Range of Colorado would be known as Albuquerque lows. They were to live for. For those that have lived it, you know that it was quite common that the forecast of these big storms were often mis-forecast. I’ll always remember the night prior to one of these big storms approaching and warnings being broadcast by radio, television, and emails! It seemed like a sure thing.

I was at Old Chicago that evening. I was with fellow teachers and we felt sure we would have a snow day for school the next day. It was cloudy and the storm seemed to be surely approaching. It started coming down! Needless to say, we stayed late. And then the inevitable happened. It stopped snowing!

And the next morning, the sun was shining and school was on. Bad decision that night before. So was the reality of a Colorado snow storm. There were many times I went to bed totally unaware that any snow was in the forecast, only to wake up with a foot or more on the ground. That is such a cool feeling. I have often thought the past year of planning a future trip back to Colorado arriving the day before a predicted winter storm.

Here’s my friend Steve rubbing it in after a recent snowfall for us in SUNNY and WARM Arizona. Note how COLD he looks!!!

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I miss Colorado!

I once lived at an elevation of almost 6800 feet elevation. That’s a good snow making environment. Now I am at just over 1400 feet above sea level in the beautiful desert. In his unique style and perspective, Steve has humorously created a web page for his friends relative to their elevation. Everything in Colorado is relative to your elevation. He creatively has called it Alititude Snob.com.

I now regretfully now live at an altitude that all my friends in Colorado now look down on me. :(

Colorado snow and altitude — there is no other place on Earth.