I visited a friend today who lives on a lake at the north end of town. You might be able to see some hockey players in the picture above. If you click on the image it will get much larger…..
My ride home started at -21C, though it was a bit warmer closer to town at -18C (UHI.) When the snow is that cold, it forms sharp ice crystals and is not slippery. By tomorrow morning it should be below -25C, and I will be on my bike as soon as I wake up.
The key is to keep all of your skin covered, and wear several layers of clothes.
Really… I thought the key was to click your heals together three times and say, “I believe in global warming… I believe in global warming… I believe in global warming…”
Better get used to it. There is evidence out there to support that we are entering a period of abrupt climate change. There is a natural cycle of interglacial periods and glacial periods in the last 400k yrs. By looking at the periodicity of the cycles it is plain to see that we are nearing the end of, if not at the end of, the present period of interglacial. Come and visit the abrupt climate change group on Yahoo groups to explore and discuss the evidence. Here is a link to some good data you can review yourself:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/data2.html
Very pretty scenery! You are lucky to live in such a beautiful place!
Steve – I think you should have mentioned that covering one’s eyes is also very important. I’ve never biked in weather as cold as you, but I’ve run in some of the similar cold/windy weather here, and even if the rest of my body is warm, my eyes can really hurt from the cold. And I wear glasses!
-Scott
My riding glasses fogged up last night, and I had to pull them down. Then I had to keep blinking to keep ice from building up on my eyes. I need to get some ski goggles,
That’s a good idea. It got so bad on one of my runs that I was keeping my eyes closed most of the time! Sounds unsafe until you realize that no one else was on the bike path at the time!
-Scott