If you’ve been in one location long enough, patterns become evident. For the touring-addicted, such patterns may be when you reliably need sneakers for an approach. Or when, with the right mix of weather variables, a traverse may come into shape, and the delightfulness of long days and speedy progress on firm snow can be…
Clinging to some SWE
For some, it’s time to scratch out some tours before the snow withers.
Feel the pain: some historic low SWEs in Oregon.
Response
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This time of year is always one of internal conflict for me. Here in the flatlands, the snow melts early with the arrival of warm, often dry, weather. Biking season.
But I’m a skier first and foremost. Getting the bike out when there is still snow in the mountains feels like betrayal.
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