On Saturday, the feast day of St. Valentine, patron saint of love, skiing should be pretty good at the Alturas Lake ski trails. On Thursday, Timinius, also known as the corduroy cowboy, groomed North Cabin and Sheep Thrills trails, having groomed everything else the day before. On Friday, Divinius and the pretty girl from the village repaired sun damage to the melting snowpack on the bridge crossing Alturas Lake Creek, hauling and packing 40 toboggan loads of snow to fill in the bare sun baked south side. It was a task celebrating not only their dedication to the ski trails, but also their love for one another. Divinius remembered the words of Victor Hugo from Les Miserables… “How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”
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