Although there’s been a lot of snow this winter, there’s been a lot of warm weather as well, so the snow hasn’t hung around so much. As a result there have been great conditions for getting out riding.
Well, up to Whiteman’s Gap is always do-able.
But here are the trails on the sunny side of the valley, the G8 side of Cougar Creek:
And the magical Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tyres that make mountain biking on ice feasible, instead of suicidal:
In the last few weeks I’ve had some of my favourite rides out there. Compacted snow and ice with spiky tyres make for fantastic biking! (And another handy thing, the bears are all still asleep). Now to convince more people that they need to buy studded tyres…