shack

The snack shack is a few feet away.

In all, the resort had one, unessential ski lift damaged, while a few ski patrol and maintenance shacks burned down.

In a windowless shack on the far outskirts of Fresno, an ominious red glow illuminates a lab filled with X-ray machines, shelves of glowing boxes, a quietly humming incubator and a miniature wind tunnel.

As we went from shack to shack, mothers told us similar stories of husbands and sons who had left to become fighters, some of whom had been killed.

“This literally is what kills me and what makes it not fun anymore. Because everybody is looking for a wolf in a sheep shack,” she said.