10F/-12C at home, 2F/-17C on campus. Took the road route again, but after XC skiing out at Service tonight and seeing how hard-packed those trails had become, I'm pretty sure that I could've biked the MUP without doing any damage to the snowpack. It seems like every winter I have to re-learn (by doing it wrong, at least once) stuff that I already knew, like at what temp to change to boots or mittens or a shell, and how long it takes after fresh snow for the MUP to become ridable again.

Still, at least the road route is a few degrees warmer, as it isn't tucked down in the Chester Creek drainage like the MUP is. On the downside, some asshat in a Tacoma gave me the ol' get-off-the-road honk today. My skin must still be thin from an entire Fall's worth of MUP miles, because I tried to flip him off. Except I was wearing mittens. :/