Greetings, outdoorspeople!
- Weekend forecast: Saturday; high 71, occasional showers/ Sunday; high 73, occasional showers
- Recommended adventure: Go climbing. Can’t hit the crag this weekend? Train at home for your next trip. Here’s how.
- Most interesting thing we’ve learned about nature this week: Astronomers believed the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the universe until 1929. That was the year that Edward Hubble published findings that, in fact, the universe was expanding. These days, astronomers estimate there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com