If you’re a native outdoorsman of the West, you know all about the Labor Day Curse. It’s a sweeping cold-pressure system that drops out of the Canadian provinces to drench the region in a cold, wet, snowy announcement that summer is over. It sends doves south, shuts down elk bugling and makes prairie and mountain roads suddenly impassable.
But it’s as brief as it is unwelcome, and the dazzling Indian Summer days on its backside bring
