Here’s a fun thing to do with a New Year’s Day hangover. Go ride in the snow.

Now, lots of people who’ve never experienced this think that riding in the snow is really hard. Actually, in lots of ways it’s easier than normal. The trails fill in and get smoother, it doesn’t matter so much where your tires go, and if you do fall down it doesn’t hurt so much.

We had a really solid turnout for this one. At least 20 riders made it out for this session on Knox Mtn. I was a little late courtesy of a dead battery, but still managed to get there in time to run the shuttle for everyone. Thanks to the guy who drove the van for a lap so I could get a run in. Oh, and Barb too (I told you she’s pregnant, right? Well, she’s pregnant. I’m pretty sure it’s mine….).

Ho wabout that, an actual riding shot. All these pics are courtesy of Rich’s cell phone. I had some kind of wierd data transfer failure and lost all the pics I took. Honestly, they weren’t all that great anyway. These are better. This next one is the boys checking out the line off the top for first tracks. It was a little freaky starting out on something that tech, but once you dove in it was easy. Rob had some good times dodging trees down lower, but it was all good.

Summer sure seems a long way off from here, but really, it’s only a couple of months until we’re ripping the dirt again.