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RECREATION: World-class Recreation and Low-rent Digs
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| By Rod Daniel |
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Memorable vacations cost money
Air fares to exotic places aren’t cheap, and gas, food and lodging on a trip through a national park adds up quickly.
But closer to home, in the Bitterroot and Lolo national forests, a handful of well-preserved, cultural treasures -- fire lookouts, guard stations, family cabins, and homesteads – serve as low-rent hostels giving ready access to the unending beauty of our priceless public land.
Many national forests – Bitterroot and Lolo included – offer overnight stays in historic cabins and fire lookouts. Some are Spartan, not much more than a room with wood stove and an outhouse, but others are down-right opulent, with electricity, running water and indoor toilet. Each of them is a culturally significant structure that’s been restored and preserved for the public to enjoy.
Montana and northern Idaho have more than 150 rental cabins in 26 different Forest Service districts, and reservations for these cabins must be made through a national Web site.
The Bitterroot National Forest offers lodging at eight different cabins or lookouts with rates ranging from $25 per night for the rustic Horse Heaven Cabin near the Nez Perce Trail to $60 per night for the spacious Woods Cabin on Lake Como.
And Lolo National Forest offers three rentals in the Missoula area – the West Fork Butte Lookout near the Idaho border west of Lolo and the Hogback and Morgan-case homesteads up Rock Creek near Philipsburg.
Bitterroot cabins
Three historic lookouts – Gird Point, Medicine Point and McCart – offer visitors “million-dollar views” with bed and kitchen facilities for $30 per night.
At 7,115 feet elevation, McCart Lookout is available from mid-May through September. Perched on the edge of the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness, this fully restored lookout is located about 17 miles east of Sula off East Fork Road. Featuring beautiful views of both the Pintler and Bitterroot mountains, access to the McCart Lookout requires driving 5 ½ miles up a primitive Forest Service road to Johnson Peak Trailhead and then hiking 1 ½ miles up a moderate trail.
Gird Point Lookout sits at 7,702 feet elevation and offers striking views of the Sapphire and Bitterroot Mountains. Located east of Hamilton off Skalkaho Highway, accessing Gird Point requires a 13 mile drive up Gird Road (Forest Road 714) followed by a moderate 1 mile hike. It’s open from about July 1 through September 1.
Poised between the east and west forks of the Bitterroot River, Medicine Point Lookout sits at 8,409 feet elevation and offers beautiful views of the Bitterroot Mountains as well as a vista of the southern Bitterroot Valley. The lookout is located about 8 miles west of Sula, and on clear nights, the lights of Hamilton can be seen from its windows. Access to Medicine Point requires driving up primitive forest roads 370 and 5731 for 7 miles to “New” Medicine Point Trailhead. The 3 ½ mile hike is rated as moderate to difficult.
All three of these historic fire lookouts have been restored to reflect the 1940s. Maximum stay at each lookout is 7 days.
Three small, rustic cabins are available in the Bitterroot National Forest. Two of them – Horse Heaven and East Fork Guard Station – can be accessed in the summer by driving almost to their front door, while one – Twogood Cabin – requires a 6-mile summer hike or a 9-mile winter ski.
Located 15 miles up East Fork Road east of Sula, East Fork Guard Station was built before 1914. The one-room cabin is available year-round for $30 per night and features a wood-burning stove for heating and a four-burner propane stove-oven for cooking. During winter, the road is plowed to within ¾ of a mile of the cabin.
Horse Heaven Cabin, located 91 miles southwest of Hamilton on the Magruder Corridor Road, lies near the prehistoric southern Nez Perce Trail. The one-room cabin will accommodate 4 people and is available from July 10 to October 20. Remarkably secluded, yet relatively easy to access, the road to the cabin serves as a boundary between the Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
This cabin is the least expensive of all the Bitterroot National Forest rentals at $25 per night. Maximum stay is 7 nights.
The Twogood Cabin was built in 1952 as a range line cabin. The trail to the cabin follows Warm Springs Creek to “Three Forks” where three creeks come together. The log cabin is located one mile up Porcupine Creek, which runs within a few feet from its door. The 6 mile hike to the cabin is rated as easy. Rent on the cabin is $30 per night, and it’s available May 2 through October 15 and December 1 through December 31.
Two larger cabins accommodate more people and thus command a little higher rent.
Magruder Ranger’s House is located next door to the historic Magruder Ranger Station 70 miles southwest of Hamilton on Magruder Road. A five-room, two story log cabin has hot and cold running water and an indoor bathroom. Available Tuesday through Sunday from June 1 through October 31 and seven day a week from December 1 through February 28, the ranger house costs $50 per night and maximum stay is 4 nights.
The largest of the eight Bitterroot rental cabins is Wood’s Cabin on the north shore of Lake Como. Built in 1928 by Dr. Herbert Heyward, the building was originally hexagonal and surrounded by cabins. The cabins were later incorporated into the structure. Heyward added a stone fireplace to the lodge in 1937 and once had quite a dock below the cabin for his yacht.
Heyward used the cabin until 1945 when he sold it to C.M. Buxtom for $100. In 1957 Buxtom sold the cabin to Bud and Irene Wood who later donated it to the Forest Service. The cabin is well-maintained and currently sports a brand-new deck. Usually occupied during the summer months between May 13 and September 19, Woods Cabin sleeps 15 adults and rents for $60 per night. Maximum stay is 5 nights.
Missoula-area cabins
West Fork Butte Lookout rental, on the west side of the Lolo National Forest near the Idaho border, is a historic 14-foot-by-14-foot fire lookout cabin (on the ground) located on a rocky knob with expansive views of the Lolo Creek drainage, Lolo Peak, and the Bitterroot Mountains. Available year-round for $30 per night, the cabin experiences only light use.
Like all eight of the Bitterroot National Forest rental cabins, West Fork Butte Lookout can be reserved via www.recreation.gov.
Two very popular restored homesteads near the blue-ribbon trout stream of Rock Creek are available through the Missoula Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest.
Hogback Homestead is located 29 miles south on Rock Creek Road from Interstate 90 and is a popular place to rent for $60 per night. The two-story wooden cabin is adjacent to Hogback Creek and near Rock Creek known for its blue ribbon trout stream and rugged canyon environment.
Up the road from the Hogback Homestead, is the Morgan-Case Homestead. Steeped in historic charm and recently refurbished through “Passport in Time” volunteer efforts, this homestead is cozy and rustic. The single-story cabin is fully furnished with two bedrooms. It has an electric cook stove, electric lighting, refrigerator, electric baseboard and wood heat.
Due to the popularity and demand, the Missoula Ranger District rents these cabins on a lottery system in an attempt to provide everyone an equal chance of spending time at this special place. Applications for the spring/summer lottery period which runs April 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010 will be accepted through March 1, 2010. Only one lottery application will be accepted per person and you must be at least 18 years old to apply.
The popularity of Forest Service cabin rentals is growing, but it’s still relatively easy to rent one or more of these cabins. Each offers its own natural amenities and each is a real bargain, even when compared to a roadside motel.
For more information about nearby Forest Service’s cabin rentals, go to the Web site of the Bitterroot National Forest (www.fs.fed.us/r1/bitterroot) or Lolo National Forest (www.fs.fed.us/r1/lolo) and click on “recreation.” Or, for more information about recreational opportunities on public land all across the U.S. go to www.recreation.gov.
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BUSINESS: Louise Harvey’s Scents of Wellness holistic practices: bringing science and spirituality together
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| By Shannon Selway |
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Missoula’s Louise Harvey has been a holistic practitioner for the past decade, and the journey that brought her into the healing vocation began with a quest to heal her own body.
“I was sick, and I thought I was dying. I had no energy and suffered from a host of physical ailments. I was praying about it, and it was as if I got a ‘clunk on the head’ to do something different. That’s when I began looking into alternative measures,” Louise said.
Louise began her self-healing process in 1983. Up to that point, she had struggled with allergies, respiratory issues, polio, thyroid deficiency, and digestive problems for which she and had taken many medications.
In her quest for health, she realized it required her to make a commitment. She did a liver cleanse and a complete diet makeover. It took her about a year to free her body completely of decades of toxin buildup. Along the way, she examined the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects in addition to the physical, all the while encouraging the balance of intellect and intuition.
Louise celebrated her newfound health doing something she feels she never could have come close to accomplishing: at the age of 63, she embarked on a four-day hike to Machu Picchu on the 27 mile Inca Trail – a feat that most people less than half her age probably couldn’t do.
Taking the tools she learned and combined with over 2,500 hours of classes, conferences and clinical situations, Louise established her Missoula-based business, Scents of Wellness, where she is a holistic practitioner. She is a master herbalist, essential oils therapist, master touch reflexologist, and a master iridologist. All of her approaches are noninvasive.
Louise believes that our bodies are always healing and teaching us about ourselves, and it’s up to the individual to facilitate self-healing, and it’s her role in aiding the individual.
Iridologists generally use equipment such as a flashlight, magnifying glass, and special digital cameras to examine a patient’s irises for changes, as well as features such as specific pigment patterns and irregular architecture. The markings and patterns are compared to an iris chart that correlates zones of the iris with parts of the body. Typical charts divide the iris into approximately 80-90 zones. For example, the zone corresponding to the kidney is in the lower part of the iris, just before 6 o’clock. There are minor variations between charts’ associations, between body parts and areas of the iris.
The results of the iridology examination are useful in seeking medical help when appropriate. If your reading reveals serious imbalances, a visit to your physician is in order.
Louise’s Raindrop Technique therapy integrates Vita Flex and massage using essential oils and touch to bring the body into structural and electrical alignment. She uses highly antimicrobial essential oils which are designed to reduce inflammation and kill viral or bacterial agents. She disburses the oils on the vertebrae and back muscles which promotes very relaxing balancing and cleansing to the spine.
Louise also utilizes a computerized gas discharge visualization technique (GDV) camera which measures aura. The GVD produces images of the human energy field which reveals psychological or physical aura, with the premise that every physical organ, every function of the mind-body has its precise effect on the human aura. By reading aura, she can determine the malfunction of every organ of the body, long before physical symptoms become evident.
Louise also sells organic therapeutic oils and offers free classes for optimal use of the oils’ powers. She also routinely holds free classes on an array of holistic topics.
Louise Harvey can be reached at: (406) 721-5373 and at:
louiseseyes@bresnan.net
The aspect of iridology is most intriguing. The concept is foreign to most, but it makes sense. In nutshell, iridology is the study of the iris of the eye. The iris is an extension of the brain and is the only brain tissue to meet the outside world. The iridologist observes iris markings, which reflects what’s happening in the body: organs, tissue integrity, toxic accumulation, and so on. By studying the iris, the iridologist can help determine where the body has issues, thus providing the individual with insight as to what to address. Details in the iris reflect changes in the tissues of the corresponding body organs. Nerve fibers in the iris respond to changes in body tissues by manifesting a reflex physiology that corresponds to specific tissue changes and locations. This means that a bodily condition will translate into a noticeable change in the appearance of the iris.
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HISTORY: The First Car Over the Mountain
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By Wm. W. Whitfield
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The trail that crosses the Continental Divide at Gibbons Pass has been used for countless centuries by Native Americans on their frequent sojourns to and from the Bitter Root Valley. In fact, the Salish Indians were preparing to cross the mountains over this very pass on the way to their fall buffalo hunt when Lewis and Clark met them in September of 1805. The following year Captain Clark and his men used the same gap in the mountains to return to their canoes and supplies that they had stashed at Camp Fortunate on the upper reaches of the Jefferson River. For some time afterwards the low saddle crossing the divide was actually known as Clark’s Pass, until General John Gibbon used it in 1877 during the Nez Perce War. It seems likely that buffalo herds also filtered into the Bitter Root Valley over the same pass in prehistoric times, and Captain Clark actually reported seeing old dried buffalo skulls strung out along the well-used trail he followed when he crossed over to the Big Hole Valley in the summer of 1806.
Eventually a rough wagon road was hewed out over the pass so that produce from the Bitter Root could be transported over to the mining camps around Bannack and Virginia City. The steep slope on the west side of the mountain had presented quite a problem for teamsters bringing goods in and out of the valley since the 1850’s. The first Forest Service road built in the district was the Big Hole Road, which crossed from Camp Creek in the Sula Basin, over to the Big Hole Battlefield west of Wisdom. In 1914 Nathaniel E. Wilkerson, a district forester who had been with the Bitter Root Forest Reserve since its inception in 1897, was assigned the job of surveying and overseeing the construction of the mountainous road which would link the two valleys. Frank Bonner, who was a district engineer out of Missoula, was chosen to aid and assist “Than” Wilkerson on the road survey and grade calculations. The road was 26.6 miles long and followed the natural contours of the mountain, and for the most part avoided the rockiest portions of the hillside. It cost $52,000 to survey and construct the road, with funds coming from the U.S. Forest Service, Ravalli and Beaverhead County taxpayers, and various other private investors and supporters of the project.
According to Wilkerson the first car to travel the road was driven by Dr. Herbert Hayward and Al Rissman.
At the time Hayward was a practicing physician in Darby, and Rissman operated a pharmacy there. While the road was being built Dr. Hayward had been treating the workers who toiled relentlessly on the steep grades of the mountain trail. Many of the workers were Bulgarians and Montenegrins from the Butte mines that had also worked on local projects, such as the Lake Como Dam and the Big Ditch, just a few years earlier. The first quarter-mile of roadway was leveled off with horses and scraper blades, but after that the job had to be tackled by laborers wielding picks and shovels. Mr. Wilkerson estimated the grade at 5% on the 7½ miles that made up the western slope, and the ground was mostly decomposed granite, which made for an incredibly hard and durable roadbed. The work was paid out on a yardage basis, and the road was measured up in 100-foot sections. A worker received 40 cents a yard for moving dirt, and the average pay was about $2.00 a day! The Beaverhead County portion of the road was more gently sloping, and horses and grader blades were used to level that section of the road.
As the project neared completion, the towns of Darby and Wisdom were becoming extremely excited at the prospect of finally being linked together by a functional roadway, and the Wisdom Chamber of Commerce invited their Bitter Root neighbors to send a pilot car over the new road as soon as possible. Dr. Hayward had a brand new Ford runabout and he and Al Rissman decided to make the crossing in September of 1914. On the appointed day the two men lashed a couple of 2x12 planks onto the sides of the motorcar and set out upon their maiden voyage. Meanwhile, the citizens of the Big Hole Valley eagerly awaited the expected arrival of the adventurous motorists later that day.
No sooner had the car started its ascent of the west slope than the cooling system began to boil over, and the men had to stop periodically to climb down to a creek to get water for the radiator. This process was repeated over and over until the motorists got too tired to fetch water and decided to wait for the brisk mountain air to cool the red-hot engine. It was just about dusk when the trailblazers neared the top of the mountain where Ravalli County ends and Beaverhead County begins. Then, just before reaching the summit, the car hit a stump that knocked the oil pan drain plug loose, causing the engine to loose all of its motor oil! The men ate a hearty steak supper at the road workers camp that was situated near the summit, while the camp’s blacksmith fabricated a wooden plug that would hopefully seal up the leaky oil pan. The plug worked, but the unprepared tourists had neglected to bring any spare oil along with them. Luckily, the ingenious camp cook provided them with enough cooking oil to once again get them on their way!
It was dark when the men left the camp and started to make their way down the old Trail Creek Road. After a couple of miles the duo came out onto a large prairie where they hit a big rock in the road, which damaged the vehicle’s steering mechanism. They spent the night in an old abandoned cabin with no heat and no warm blankets. Early in the morning they found enough tools in the car to get the damaged part off, and then used rocks to pound it back into good enough shape to steer the car! By sunup they were on the road again, crossing Trail Creek back and forth using their 16 foot-long planks to drive on. At Ruby Creek the car slid off the planks and got mired down in the muck. Fortunately, a cowboy came along who offered to lasso the bumper of the car and pull it out of the mire with his horse. When the car engine started up, the horse bolted, and the cowboy was instantly dumped into the swamp! The three men were forced to walk to the Ruby Ranch, where they found a good steak dinner and another horse to pull them out of their fix.
Once the car had been pulled through the creek and up on to dry land, the men set out on the last 15 miles of the road that would bring them in to Wisdom. When they finally arrived in Wisdom they found that the anticipated celebration had worn off, and the steak dinner waiting there for them was cold and unused. The celebrators themselves had finally given up on the two Bitter Rooters and were found just a little worse for wear in the town saloon where they had all gone afterwards to nurse their wounds and drown their sorrows. By the time the intrepid Darby motorists finally made a showing, Dick Hathaway, the editor of the ‘Big Hole Breezes’ was reportedly “filled to the gills with wild moose milk.” Sporting a huge 20-gallon hat, the jovial editor of the local paper quickly hoisted the two weary travelers up onto the bar top, where they were repeatedly toasted by the reinvigorated crowd, until everyone present was perfectly satisfied with the somewhat delayed outcome of the historic automotive adventure.
Early one fine September morning, after the damage to both the car and the drivers had been properly attended to, the men set forth on their return trip to the Bitter Root Valley. This time around they made it clear through to Darby in a single day, stopping once again for another hot steak dinner at the worker’s camp near the summit of Big Hole Mountain. Eventually both Dr. Hayward and Al Rissman moved to Hamilton, where they each set up shop. Dr. Hayward continued to practice medicine, but Mr. Rissman got out of the drug store business and opened up a service station. Apparently he had lately come to realize that proper vehicle maintenance would soon be a necessary requirement for the traveler of the future.
For a while the Montana Highway Department took over the routine maintenance of the Big Hole Road, and guardrails were even installed on the sharp curves of the steep western slopes. Unfortunately, the guardrails were removed later on, and if you ever happen to be driving along the outside lane of the road, you’ll definitely appreciate how they might have helped to make a driver feel a little more confidant while rounding some of those narrow blind corners. In 1963 a new road was opened up over Chief Joseph Pass, which connects the Big Hole Valley to Highway 93 near the Idaho state line. The U. S. Forest Service once again maintains the Gibbon’s Pass Road, and it’s likely that not too many people who cross over it these days are really aware of the story about the two local boys who drove the first car over the mountain.
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REAL ESTATE: Residential Market Trends in Missoula & Ravalli Counties
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| By Darwin Ernst |
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The past decade has resulted in a wide range between the peaks and valleys of the local residential housing market. These trends were a result of a number of factors and property owners are now wondering… what will happen next?
In order to predict the future of the residential housing market, it is important to look at the historical market trends. The data is extracted from the local multiple listing services (MLS) and has been set to eliminate mobile home sales that are considered to be personal property and not real estate, as well as those properties with more than twenty acres that have additional value for surplus acreage, such as growing an agricultural crop, harvesting timber, or grazing land.
Missoula County data suggests that the volume has increased slightly during 2009 from 2008, but the current volume of sales is still lower than the volume in 2000 and indicates a 41% decline from the peak of the residential housing market in 2005.
Ravalli County data has a very similar market trend pattern to that of the Missoula market area; however, the data does not show an increase in the volume of sales from 2008 to 2009 and the current volume is a 60% decline from the peak of the residential housing market in 2005.
The median sale price for disclosed single-unit residential housing with 0-20 acres of land. It is of interest to note that the peak of the median sale prices in Missoula and Ravalli Counties occurred two years after the peak in the volume of residential sales in 2005.
Both the Missoula and Ravalli County residential housing market trends show a drop in the median sale price from 2008 to 2009, but the decrease in the Missoula market is negligible when compared to the 9% drop in Ravalli County.
The residential housing markets within both markets are dominated by properties under $500,000. This is evidenced by the lack of disclosed high-value home sales in the local MLS databases. There were only eight disclosed residential home sales with 0-20 acres in Ravalli County within the Bitterroot MLS during 2009. Comparatively, there were 32 disclosed sales under the same parameters within the Missoula MLS for Missoula County.
Foreclosures are also on the rise. According to the Ravalli County data there were 94 trustee deeds filed in 2009. Many more property owners have received a notice of trustee’s sale, but there are many options that may not result in a recorded trustee deed. A trustee deed is a lender declaring that the borrower has defaulted on the loan and the lender now has declared ownership by filing a deed of trust.
The foreclosure data for Missoula County was not available for analysis at this time.
The number of recorded trustee deeds represents the number of properties that have been foreclosed and are now owned by a financial lender. These properties are typically listed for sale during the foreclosure proceedings and are definitely for sale once they have been foreclosed upon and become a non-producing asset of a financial lender. Other frequently used terms for these foreclosed properties include “Real Estate Owned” (REO), repossessed, and “Bank-Owned”. The number of notices of trustee’s sales typically include a potential for multiple notices and non-recorded cancellations and the volume of recorded trustee deeds are likely under the actual amount of foreclosures because many trustees do not record a trustee deed until they are ready to sell the property. A financial lender does not want to show that they have non-producing real estate assets and they may be able to avoid looking bad if they do not actually record the trustee deed that puts them in ownership!
The property values within a market are affected by the increase in the volume of foreclosures, because the financial lenders are now in competition with other local property owners that are in the market to sell their home to avoid a future foreclosure. The result is a decrease in property values. Financial lenders are actually requiring some real estate agents (who are willing to list their properties within the MLS) to refrain from advertising their real estate assets as REO properties even though it is a requirement within the local MLS to disclose if it is a bank-owned property.
My prediction for the local market will be a decrease in residential property values within Missoula and Ravalli County through the first quarter of 2011. In Ravalli County the volume of foreclosures (based on the number of recorded trustee deeds) are 94 and the total volume of disclosed residential sales are 313. This indicates that foreclosed properties currently represent approximately one-third of the volume of residential sales and that does not include those properties headed for foreclosure and property owners under duress to sell their home before they receive a notice of trustee’s sale. It appears that the number of foreclosures on residential housing will increase during 2010, which will have an adverse affect on property values within our market.
I also believe that we are very fortunate to have minimal impact on our property values as compared to national figures due to those individual appraisers who were labeled “conservative” during the inflated market and the local financial lenders who kept their same sound lending practices throughout the age of “shadow lending” where non-depository and non-regulated lenders took over 68% of the mortgage lending on a national level during the past decade.
Our market area is still a destination for retirees and those that live in high-crime areas, crowded cities, and areas with a high frequency in natural disasters. I don’t know where people are moving to that are being foreclosed upon, but I do believe that we are fortunate if we have the resources to remain in our homes during these difficult economic times. I would also highly suggest using local lenders and real estate professionals with strong credentials if you require these types of services during this recession period.
e-mail: darwin@tekboys.com Designated Residential Member of the Appraisal Institute, Montana Real Estate Appraiser Board Member, Montana Residential Certified Appraiser, Licensed Real Estate Agent, Realtor, and President of Independent Valuation Solutions, LLC
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HEALTH: Seasonal Affective Disorder
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By Jeff Schroeder PhD, Licensed Psychologist
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In the “old days” we often just called it “cabin fever” – that overwhelming sense of too much snow and too little sun, too long nights and too short days, when the balmy summer and fall weather seemed like a distant memory. Many of us notice increased agitation, irritability, sadness, even depression this time of year, and it turns out it’s not just because we can’t afford that Caribbean cruise vacation. Seasonal Affective Disorder (with a handy acronym of SAD) affects many people, especially in the upper latitudes, causing depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, and lack of enjoyment of life. When we have less sun exposure, either from cloudy skies or just spending more time indoors, our skin does not manufacture the Vitamin D that our Pineal Gland needs to encourage proper balance of brain chemistry, and the result is often depressed mood and low motivation. If we have a tendency toward depression even in the best of times, SAD can cause it to be worse.
Effective treatment of SAD may involve cognitive approaches (changing how you think), behavioral strategies (changing what you do), and biochemical interventions (changing our brain chemistry). Cognitively, we can remind ourselves that Winter is the time nature rests and restores itself, and we can make sure we do the same – reading books, starting an indoor hobby, getting plenty of sleep, trying some new recipes, keeping in touch with others through mail, phone, or computer, etc. Remind yourself of the benefits of this winter hibernation time. Behaviorally, it is vitally important that we get regular cardiovascular exercise, outdoors whenever possible. Don’t miss out on the sunny days that do occur, getting outside, preferably in some enjoyable activity involving interaction with others. Scheduling walks, group activities, attending church or community events will improve your chances of “getting off the couch”. If you are stuck indoors, exercise there, and consider obtaining one of the Full Spectrum Lights to read and exercise with.
If these approaches still leave you with the “winter blues”, especially if you are withdrawing from social contacts, passing up previously enjoyed activities, eating or sleeping a great deal more or less than usual, or feeling hopeless/helpless, it’s time to consult your primary care physician. He or she can recommend a counselor, and/or discuss nutritional (VitaminD, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, SAMe) or pharmaceutical (antidepressants or other mood stabilizers) interventions. You can’t make Spring reappear any sooner, but you don’t have to take the Winter blues sitting down.
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