Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
Do what you want, but I really find it to be temperature dependent, as I described in post 5 above.
On the day in the photo, I had a long sleeve jersey under my jacket, which was under the rain jacket. I was not worried about sweat that day.
I was glad I had long finger gloves that day, with some mitten type covers to go over the fingers. I did not expect to find snow on the ground in June, but, yup, that was snow. On the other hand, if you are always in a built up area with motel options every day, do what CarbonFiberBoy does.
My wife and I were at my 50th HS reunion in Fairbanks and had brought our tandem. We were riding around town and happened upon a guy on an absolutely filthy bike which was making all sorts of squeaky and grating noises. He'd just ridden down from the North Slope, all nasty sorta gravel. He wanted to know where the nearest bike shop was. I happened to know, having had new chain put on the day before. The grit on Fairbanks roads was the worst I've ever seen, and I rode there a lot as a kid - the reason we brought the tandem.
Looks like you were somewhere there's permafrost judging by the tree sizes.