If Winter Disappoints, Keep Cool Head

Memo to snowmobilers, snowshoe enthusiasts and skiers: Another of those El Niños will affect our play-in-the-snow winter ahead. That’s right. On the heels of a hot summer in 2014, one in which Lewiston-Clarkston residents had double the average of triple-digit  temperatures, we’re going to have a winter that probably has warmer temperatures and less snow than normal in the mountains. I’ll be surprised if it’s a vintage snow skiing season at Schweitzer Mountain Resort near Sandpoint or Brundage Mountain near McCall - or if there’s deep snowmobile snow in the Blue Mountains or elsewhere in our Lewiston Tribune area of winter play. Should we slit our wrists, those of us who like to go to the snow?/ Publisher Butch Alford , Lewiston Tribune. More here .