I didn't commute by bike today, to preserve more energy for afternoon. When I got home, something had arrived from UberSanta Hendrik Morkel:
Sweet Snow Peak Titanium 600 Mug that I won in Hiking In Finland's brilliant Advent Calendar. Until now I haven't had a real outdoor mug but now I have. I was thinking about some kuksa, like Kupilka, but this looks great. It's large and it's really good thing for me as I like to drink a big mug of coffee every morning. Next I headed to my bike room and installed the new Surly Big Fat Larry tyre:
And then to outdoors:
After fairly miserable weather in December, we are back to real winter!
I went to check out the trails of Alttarvaha and see how much damage the recent storms had done there.
As expected, there was damage:
Lots of damage:
But there happens to be a very nice little pond too:
And more damage:
The beauty of snow:
I really wanted to ride in the daylight, even a short ride. I like to ride in the dark, but at this time of the year it feels that I get oversaturated with the darkness. But it's damn nice feeling when the darkness starts to set in:
At the end of the ride the wind was pretty hard and the snow was hitting my face. Believe it or not, but I loved it! I have waited long for something like this.
It will take some time for the owners of the forests to pick up all the fallen trees, and it looks like it will be better to ride more the many nice forest roads instead of the trails this winter.
Even more photos of today's ride are here.
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Looks like a good day! We'll have to do an overnighter to Alttarvaha as soon as I get rid of this stupid illness.
Yes Peter, I was just thinking about that today. Maybe forthcoming weekend if you get healthy. Subzero temps forecasted...
The next weekend would otherwise be fine with the extra free day and everything, but I think it is too early for me. The flu is getting worse, with a fever of 38.8 just a moment ago.
Well in that case is better to wait for another weekend. That's bad. Get well mate!
Usually I have also one flu in some kind of form every winter, but so far I've been healthy. Crossing fingers...
Hi Tony. In one of your pictures of you with clear glasses on, are those prescription lens inserts that clips inside the glasses? How do you like them? If I may ask what brand they are?
DummyDiva, feel free always to ask anything, I would love to answer be helpful.
The glasses are Briko Klip-On and the clips are indeed prescription lens inserts. The Brikos are from the late 90s and I have a feeling that Briko doesn't manufacture them anymore. They have been fairly good but optically they are not so good as single-lens glasses, like Oakleys. The good thing is that were very cheap at the time of purchasing, much cheaper than Oakleys.
My current Brikos have fairly lot of scratches so in the future I need some new glasses.
Toni
Are you racing??
http://www.rovaniemi150.com/
No. It was on my mind when the race was announced but I reckon that the registration fee is way too high. Maybe some another year if the fee comes down...
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