The snow finally came! And on a special day, Christmas morning. Christmas Eve was a brown Christmas Eve, then on the next morning when I woke up, there was 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. I was pretty excited about it and since everybody didn't want to get up until 10 that morning to open presents, I decided to go ride my fat bike in the new, fresh snow. I went up Kane Valley Road on the backside of Black Hill. I was first tracks on the road and it was beautiful.
During Christmas break, I went on more rides on my fat bike and it was very exhilarating. The snow was perfect and the weather was beautiful but very cold. On the ride Friday, it wasn't bad, but on Saturday's ride, it was 12 degrees when I started then it warmed up with the sun shining and the temperature got to 18 degrees. After working out for 10 minutes, I warmed up fast.
Duke came with me on Saturday's ride in back of the foothills and he ran right by me the whole way and he enjoyed it, well, it seemed like it. But he was very tired. He ran 9 miles.
For Christmas this year, I received a very good item for snow biking, the 45 North Wolvhammers boots. They are the best. I really like them and they are very warm. I can also put cleats on them so I can ride on clipless pedals. It's so much better to ride clipless and I hope by spraying Pam onto the cleats and pedals(got the idea from somebody else), the snow and ice won't stick on them. These shoes were very pricey for the elves to make and they don't make very much of these. So I got really lucky from Santa. I must have been very good this year!
