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Winter Park, Colorado. (Photo: Ed Tibbetts)

Greetings from Colorado.

As I write this, it is the morning after a beautiful day in the mountains. At 10,000 feet in Winter Park, it looked like you could see forever.

The majesty of the mountains in the clear, crisp air was breathtaking.

I was lucky — in my ability to visit such a place, but also for the clear s…