Headed to work Saturday morning through two more inches of fresh, and beat the plows again for fresh tracks all the way up N st. Another two inches fell during the day; on the way home I had to walk the bike up the Hillcrest trail (doesn't get plowed and not enough snow yet to run a groomer down it), and up the sidewalk for the last block before the house (fully buried under 6-8 inches of stiff plow wake from the road plows).
Three more inches fell last night, and it was still dumping this morning when I left the house, so I left the bike at home and skied to work today. Broke trail the whole way in, so it was slow going, but it was a lot nicer being out in the open air than cooped up in the car waiting for some knucklehead to rear end me at the next light. Plus, I don't have to scrape windows.
There's a better picture on page 359 of
the Commuter Bicycle Pics thread. It's a Nashbar Cyclocross X build, nothing fancy. It's got a set of Nokian Hakkapeliita 240s on it right now for ice riding, but it's really only a backup bike as far as winter's concerned. The main winter ride was halfway through a hub service, so I wasn't riding it that day:
^^Snapped coming home from work last night. I prefer an upright position and wider tires for riding in the snow. The only downside to the green bike is that it weighs more than twice as much as the Nashbar, so when it gets too deep I have to push it through the snow, whereas the Nashbar is light enough to carry on my shoulder.
Guts? Naw, I'm a skier. That is what we skiers call a beautiful day; you'd have a hard time keeping me
inside on days like that.