LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Photo: Ghiglia
Nothing beats an evening surf sesh.

Photo: Aspen
Spring time in the mountains goes off!

Sleep till your heart (or head) is content.

Winter cabin fever can make you look like this guy -
scary.

Summer cometh - thou shalt rejoice!This Sunday we spring forward. At least one benefit from the Bush administration was the expansion of Daylight Savings for four weeks per year (three weeks earlier in the spring and one week later in the fall).

We acknowledge that downsides exist but here we focus on the positive.

Stay gold right?

1. Post work surfs (or enter other activity here ____)

For those in school or who work in an office, there's nothing worse than getting out for the day and it being dark or close to it. I get fat in the winter because I don't like getting up early and rely on evening light for my exercise. There's no better way to wash away a day of stress and aggravation than a sunset surf. Believe it.

2. Better Apres Ski

If you're in the mountains having an extra three weeks of evening light in the spring is a huge benefit to apres ski culture. Now you can enjoy your frothy post riding libation or the annual pond skim contest in a comfortable golden hue of twilight rather than the cold midwinter chill of night.

3. Sleeping In Gets Easier

Since it's Friday as I write this, I likely will go out tonight. Of course it wouldn't be a fun night out were it not accompanied by a not so fun morning, so the darker it is before 10 am on Saturday AM the easier it will be to sleep through the worst part of my hangover.

4. Cabin Fever is Over

The dark days of winter can have a dire effect on one's psychi. Trapped indoors, held hostage by the dark forces of Nature, there's no telling what depression combined with a bottle of whiskey can do. With extra daylight you have the excuse you need to get outside and avoid the darkside of the Force.

5. Summer is Coming

Longer days mean warmer temperatures are on the horizon so that's generally a good thing. Warmer water, spring skiing, beer, BBQ and and best of all - bikinis. Need I say more...

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