Essay by Stephen Lyons
Modern Life – November 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Just before the neighbors’ air conditioning kicked on, I was dreaming about snow-covered mountains in Idaho. Not the verticality, the pine scent, or alpenglow, but the dry coolness of elevated spaces. Instead, I awoke in my soggy underwear in a hot bed near sea level, my eyebrows and scalp sweating for the first time in my life.
