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Ohmygosh it was cold! Again! And snow! And wine!


First snow ride of the year, and an interesting find at the Skegg's Point parking lot.
Tuesday's ride was wet can cold. Glad we chose the rain bikes. Today's ride (ok, yesterday's by now) was wet and COLDER!!!

At no point did the temp ever leave the 30s (the Garmin says otherwise, since it started out in a warm garage and didn't reflect the real temperature for about 20 minutes). And, like Tuesday, it got colder as we climbed. About halfway up Kevin (former pilot) meets up with us; it was actually surprising we saw at least two others out on the road. Who'd want to be out there when wet and cold like that? We saw our first patches of snow at the archery range corner on Kings, and then more up top near Skeggs.

We stopped at the Skeggs parking lot to put on rain jackets and came across an unopened small bottle of wine sitting on one of the picnic tables. First time for everything!

Descending Skyline and then 84 was not a lot of fun; my hands were probably turning all sorts of odd colors inside my gloves and we couldn't wait to get back down onto the flats and warm up. But, it didn't get much warmer; about 37. Up to a balmy 39 by the time we got home.

Not fun in the shower as the fingers thawed out. Hate that feeling. There's just nothing you can do about it; you have to thaw out, but for 3 or 4 minutes the process of thawing out is worse, much worse, than the feeling they're frozen. Hopefully, the last really cold ride of the season. And thankfully, no ice.
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