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Other signs of summer’s impending arrival:

1. Late next week the summer Crested Butte Magazine will hit the stands – and this website. It’s a fun issue… but more on that later, when you can flip through the pages yourself.

 2. I saw three types of legs in the grocery store this afternoon: jeans-clad (suspicious holdouts like me, who still think it might snow any minute), pasty white or other natural skin tone (those who dug out their shorts for the first time today), and bright red (those who dug out their shorts yesterday).

3. Poo Fest is tomorrow. Where else but Crested Butte could people have a great time cleaning up a winter’s worth of dog tailings?

 4. People are playing golf at the Club at Crested Butte. Without parkas.

 5. Restaurants are opening their outdoor seating areas so diners can sun-bask and people-watch – though until tourist season gears up, we mostly get to watch each other. 

 6. After just four hikes, my car has regained its wet-dog fragrance from Luke’s ability to ferret out lakes, streams and puddles. No wonder my friends always offer to drive when we carpool somewhere in the summer.

 7. That early-summer color scheme has just popped, when the fields of new green contrast so brilliantly with the luminous snow-white mountains.

 Got any “signs of summer” to add to the list?