Might as well take the Trail

[Reptoid Overlords]

We have been getting a respectable amount of snow here in the north Puget Sound(near Seattle). Since I subscribe to the "ride it for at least a few miles regardless of the season" camp I decided that several inches of snow is a fine time to go exercise the Trail. I drive a commercial truck for a living which my company didn't run today due to poor conditions. A pretty good use of a free day off I'd say. Plus, wouldn't want the battery to go flat.

 

[AZ7000']

I’ve been riding the 1/2 mile to work in the 10’s and as is odd it is staying cold and ice covered. Frost crystals in the morning give some decent traction! I’m at work at 7:00.
I am riding the ct-90 not the 125, she’s hit the ground before .

 

[dmonkey]

On stock tires, no less! Looks like an exciting ride.

 

[bryanchurch06]

You don't have to be crazy, but it helps.

 

[SneakyDingo]

I ride on snow... I don't ride on ice without substantial improvements to my grip situation. The only people upright today on the ice are people wearing minispikes and crampons.

There's a video of cars sliding down hills and slamming into things. This video was actually taken outside the apartment I used to live in (Western cnr Clay St., one block over from the Olympic Sculpture Park). You could not pay me enough to go riding with morons like that on the roadways.

 

[Tchap]

Those conditions are not rideable for me. Barely drive-able. Even the Vermont highway crews can have trouble keeping up with freezing rain.

 

[SneakyDingo]

One of the local cities near where I live just outright gave up on clearing the ice. They couldn't keep up with it, and they were exposing the equipment and people to needless danger to try and keep up with it. The forecast for +1d from issuing this statement was warm weather and rainfall that would clear it naturally, so it was a fiscally smart move to ask people to just not drive that day, but it's still sort of amusing that the people responsible for clearing the snow and ice said it was too snowy and icy to clear.