Originally Posted by mollusk

I hope it isn't too cold.

Actually I'm very jealous.

A couple of years ago I went up to western North Carolina over Thanksgiving and got in some serious climbing. The climbing part was fine, but the descending was sketchy because they had a recent snow at the higher elevations and all the roads were heavily sanded. It made every switchback an adventure.

Also there were some long descents in mid-40 F temps and even though I was wearing leg warmers, base layer, old-school long sleeved wool jersey, and wind shell I was FREEZING. While climbing I wanted to take everything off.