Had a minor abdominal surgery 11 days ago, so still on limited lifting/activity. Healing well, but crawling up the walls wanting to DO SOMETHING. Heading to local trails seemed inadvisable, so I picked a local lake and went for a mellow cruise.
It was fun to freehand the text. My wife said it’s better than my normal handwriting. The evening light gave me a fairly good view of the previous tracks so it was fairly straightforward to try to match things up. I debated doing this in cursive but opted against that as I barely remember how to write in cursive, and lots of people can’t read it now. Snow conditions were perfect on the lake – thin and wind-packed – so it wasn’t too strenuous. Temp was about 9 below when I finished. The light from the setting Sun was beautiful.
Bike is a 2011 Mukluk with the old Graceful Fat Sheba rims and a mongrel build that’s evolved over the years. Bike is held up with a wireless trackstand adapter*, which makes taking shots like these a breeze, unless there’s an actual breeze.
*which would be pretty cool and would be totally doable, but sadly doesn’t exist yet to my knowledge. Really it’s wide tires and crunchy snow and not much wind.
by Ja_Ho