Waiting for some cold

On Sunday morning, the rain soaked snow pack at the Alturas Lake ski area had a chance to freeze and set up a bit. However it was not frozen enough to support the snowmobile and ginzu groomer, with the snowmobile repeatedly punching through the fragile crust. After a try at grooming the Trail to the Lake as far as the bridge junction, Over the Hill and some of South Loop, all efforts were called off, since doing anything to the trails seemed to end up worse than doing nothing at all. His work all for naught and his pride defeated, our broken groomer Davinius who had thought himself smart enough to outwit the melting snow, returned to his dripping ice cave to meditate on the virtue of humility and the words of his hero Galileo who had died on this very date in 1642. Could it really be true that Galileo had “never met a man so ignorant that he couldn’t learn something from him”? Divinius decided he should keep that in mind. And as for that sun melting the snowpack, Galileo had summed it up well when he said that “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” Hmmmmm….