“Usually there is no snow to speak of in September and about five inches falls in October and thirty in November and fifty in December and sixty in January, and then the snows taper back down through the forties in February and March down finally to zero inches by July, although you never know; plenty of climbers and skiers have seen sudden snow in the highest reaches of the mountain in summer, usually late in the afternoon, when the wind shifts course and fogs roll in and climbers lose their be...arings. On average, September’s snow was a tenth of an inch, according to all the charts. But averages skew.It started on a Friday morning. Dave’s dad was fixing a bus at the school. Dave was in geometry class. Maria’s first-grade class was discussing how arithmetic was a language as well as a tool. Dave’s mom was at the lodge working with Emma Jackson Beaton, who had a terrible cold and should not have been working but was stacking up vacation days so she could, she said, surf with Mr. Billy Beaton on the west coast of Africa.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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