Snow? But, It's October!!

So there has been a chance to hike & ski at least for a short time this year. The bummer is that the trails are not frozen, but they are covered in a nice leaf slime, with ice and snow topping. Yum!

I have relegated myself to riding the dirt roads, with my attempts at riding the trails ending in nothing more than complete and utter disaster, including endos into ditches, sliding down off camber trails into rocks, and generally feeling like I was trying to herd cats. Or juggle jello. Or ride my mountain bike on trails that have seen more rain in October than they have seen since the rainfall has been kept track of. And then there was the snow. Of which we still have some. Wow, what a crappy sentence that was. Just like the trails after rain, after snow and with a warm up.

The weather was great this last weekend, however. But the trails are still under recovery. I am hoping that either it freezes hard, or it stays nice long enough to dry up. Either way, I am good. With frozen ground and/or snow on top, you can use studs (excluding BikeHubby, of course), and with dry weather, things remain the same.

I'm beggin Mother Nature to please, please, please have some mercy on Ms. Bicycle Freak. She's really teetering on the brink of insanity of which Mother Nature has not seen.