Ha! Ya, that's true freezing to death was an exaggeration.

The last couple days we've had a couple inches of fresh snow. I guess in part because of being inspired by this forum I decided to commute by bike in spite of my usual reservation to biking in such conditions. I rode my mountain bike and every thing was fine. The biggest problem I found is that it really bothers other people. Right off the bat yesterday some drivers were giving me angry head shakes, like I was a total jerk or something for not being inside a car. Then a minute later my cousins husband saw me riding and tried to talk me into letting him give me a ride, which was a nice offer, but I kindly refused as I pointed out that I do own a car had I wanted drive. Apparently he was very worried because he proceeded to follow me the next mile and a half until I reached the bottom of the descent I was on. I guess he wanted to protect me from other cars on the downhill. Most of my 10 mile commute is on a bike path, so other than about 2 miles at the beginning of the ride and 1 mile at the end I am safe from cars. As I was on my last one mile stretch my wife's friend happened to see me and proceeded to call my wife and tell her how crazy and unsafe it was that I was biking in the snow. My wife of course agrees with her. Funny, most days I don't see anybody I know on my commute.