Commentary: 'Solastalgia' strikes the Winter Olympics
by Auden Schendler, Los Angeles Times
Feb 12, 2018
3 minutes
At a cross-country ski area outside of Carbondale, Colo., the thin track was recently refreshed with a meager two inches of snow. Yet people were out in droves, delighting in all manner of snow sliding. It was a hot January day, so blistering that a local rancher called it beautiful "for April."
Around one turn, some skiers had built two miniature snowmen. They had raisin eyes and stick arms, and they stood only 10 inches high -
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