Yup, its that time of the year.
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Winter has arrived..
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011A Winter Granite Tors Hike
Thursday, November 10th, 2011Tom, Ms Marsh, and I (plus Remus the dog, if he counts), spent a wonderful Sunday hiking the Granite Tors. I love this trail in all its seasons and this hike was no exception. Here are some photos that sum up the experience.. or attempt to anyway. Enjoy!
Next time I need to bring the “Big” camera and get some better photos!
Winter fun..
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011I took the the snow bike out this weekend and enjoyed a nice long ride in the new snow.
It was a beautiful day…
I explored some trails that I had never been on in the winter..
And spent some time on some more familiar trails.
The sun was out and it was nice to be biking in the daylight for a change.
I have been using Lobbens but alas in wet overflow they absorb water like mad. It appears I will need to work out some other solution for the winter adventures I have planned.
Now if we just had more snow… Let it snow!
Scenes from my commute..
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Its a bit round-a-bout, but I have to get the miles on the legs to prepare for upcoming winter madness of one sort or another.
One month until the snow biking season starts…
Only two more days…
Friday, March 25th, 2011There are only two more days until the Whites Mountains 100.. I had a blast last year and have been looking forward to this race all winter. Good luck everyone!
An afternoon on the snowbike..
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011With a Monday free of family and work commentments, I loaded the snow bike up in the truck and headed out to the White Mountains NRA. The trailhead was largely empty, besides a ranger from BLM who was unloading his snow machine. I unloaded the bike, let Remus out, and headed off to go have some fun.
The trail was a bit soft, but ridable.
It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm, though a bit breezy at times. Several weeks of snow and wind have made an interesting snowscape..
By the end of the day it was pretty windy on the hills, with a fair bit of blowing snow. It was fairly warm, perhaps 15f or so, so it was not cold, and very beautiful.
Wind in the Whites from J C on Vimeo.
I ended up biking about 30 miles in 6 hours or so – so nothing particularly epic nor fast, but a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. The trail softened up quite a bit in the late afternoon and I ended up pushing a fair bit, but it was not the end of the world to push for a while.
This was my first long day trip with my new 100mm Flattop rear wheel. I got this rear wheel built up for cabin trips and so for it has been a bit of a mixed bag – they add quite a bit of float in really soft conditions, but the price you pay for this is a fair bit of extra rolling resistance. They also are a bit tricky to get the bead seated on them correctly. It took me several tries to get the tire mounted on them in a somewhat round manner with the seated fairly evenly on the rim – not really the experience you would expect from a $120 rim.. I ended up gluing the most troublesome side down as with the loose fit I was not confident that they would not slip when I was running low pressures. Also a bit disappointing – perhaps my 70mm UMA IIs from speedway have spoiled me, but it should be unnecessary to glue tires on these days.