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Evergreen tunes up for Mountain Bowl, roughs up TJ
Tanner Cassin and Dylan Reifeis each rushed for two touchdowns as Evergreen ripped Thomas Jefferson 55-14 on Oct. 2 at Evergreen High School.

The Cougars finished with 379 yards of total offense, including 239 on the ground. Cassin rushed 15 times for a team-high 90 yards. James Hardy caught a 41-yard TD pass from Reifeis. Cassin also returned an interception 17 yards for a score.

Chances are there weren’t too many teams, if any, at the 4A boys golf state championships that were as inexperienced as the Evergreen Cougars. Yet, there EHS was Sept. 29-30 at Walking Stick Golf Course in Pueblo. Unfortunately, that inexperience — with three sophomores and a freshman — came into play.

Evergreen tied for eighth place in the 13-team field with Discovery Canyon with a 64-over-par 496 total, one shot back of Durango.

Usually the fall colors reach their peak during the last week of September or the first week of October. It seems a bit off schedule this year, but whenever it comes, it is my favorite time of year. Usually we have a few Indian summer days of fine weather along with the brilliant color and cool clear nights.

Some mushroom hunters have “secret” harvesting spots along Highway 103 in Clear Creek County.

Others look for edible mushrooms at Evans Ranch near Mount Evans and at other more remote mountain locales. Every year, they find and harvest King Boletes, also known as porcini mushrooms, chantarelles and other varieties such as lactarius deliciosus, which has no common name.