Snow-bike ride

Chad convinced me that a snow ride was in order, and he kindly lent me some windproof pants.  I was apprehensive, but excited.

It was -1C, with next to no sunshine, and little breeze.

Chad drove up the area in which I helped he and his son chop wood a few months ago.  It's a stunning area.


At the start of the ride

Chad lent me a bike

Sam the trail dog was EXCITED

Chad doing some tweaking

Rolling hills and ridge lines.  I love the look of the snow topped trees

I can't get enough of scenes like these, it's as if icing sugar has been sprinkled on the ground

Sam again, he loves to run

Climbing, climbing

An open switchback.

Near the top of the ride the snow was about 5" deep

Chad about to drop-in to the singletrack.  Sam is his usual excited self.

At one point on the sing track descent, we came across a 100m long ice section.  I didn't realise that Chad veered to avoid the first section…that looked to me like it had isolated section of ice….but I was a bed of ice with snow on top.  I had a graceful fall as the tyres slowly lost traction on the off-camber surface.

In some parts of the descent all I could do was follow Chad's tyre tracks - I couldn't see the trail to save myself.

Post ride we went to one of the two brew pubs in town.

The End.