SC - Surviving Estrella War

[Chris Stanifer]

- --- KallipygosRed at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/27/01 12:17:22 AM US Mountain
> Standard Time, 
> stefan at texas.net writes:
> 
> 
> > Aren't these a bit contradictory? How can it be
> "especially dry" and
> > "rain at least one night"?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Not at all. Although to those who do not live in the
> Sonoran Desert may not 
> realize it, the desert is generally surounded by
> mountains, which the Indians 
> used to say, call the clouds into the basin. And
> these are not just any 
> mountains, these are The Rockies. Desert can change
> temp overnight as much as 
> 70 degrees or better. 

Boy howdy!  I recall my first Estrella (year before
last..), and the vast difference in temperature
between daylight and nightfall (a beautiful 70 F
during the day, and a bitter 28 F at night).  And to
think I used to chide my ex-girlfriend for sleeping on
such an out-of-period air mattress.... a few inches of
insulating air between you and that freezing ground
can make a huge difference.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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