After summers of waiting and years of agony underground, he had his tool to use against Memon.
In the east the winters are often long and very cold, and the summers dry and hot.
The demon is too strong for a boy under the age of five summers.
Summers, The Mountain State (ibid.
But he wasn't even in Ouray between the early 1940's, when he was a child visiting summers, and 1980, when he started coming back after his brother died.