Month: September 2010

Hump

Good morning.

I used to live in Boulder County, Colorado and often biked up the roads in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near the Fourmile Canyon fire. During an earlier wildfire, a colleague talked me into joining him for a lunch ride. We were a good 20 miles away from the flames, but I still choked on the smoke blanketing the Front Range across Boulder and Weld Counties that day.

I probably damaged my lungs that day. Biking through thick smoke is a really bad idea.

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