Not too cold this morning; mid-20s, but it had been snowing most of the night, so I had to clear the driveway. (wife is working remote today and needs to get out to an appointment) Then, change clothes and head out. The eFatty's battery is nearly fully charged from the other night, when I had to bring it inside to charge. I decided not to use power this morning though; the exercise feels good and I'm trying to keep my legs in some kind of shape for spring bike club rides.

The roads were brown sugar slush in the middle and up to 1/2" of snow at the sides. I had a tough choice: ride in the brown sugar slush with a bit more traction and make cars drive around me in the oncoming lane or ride in the mostly virgin snow off to the sides and run a higher risk of going down. I wound up doing the latter most of the time and mostly found truck tire tracks to ride in, so the knobs & studs hooked up OK. There wasn't much traffic on the road I took for the first mile; I only got passed once. On the 2nd mile, I got passed many times and the motorists were happy I could ride off to the side.


Choice was brown sugar in the middle or slicker, virgin snow off to the side.
The plow drivers must love when it snows overnight before garbage day. Most people brought out the trash before the snow, blocking the plow from getting the whole street. On the other hand, it also limits how much we get plowed in at the bottoms of our driveways...