OK ... now the temperature is dropping it feels like the run-in to the season. In Cambridge its distinctly chilly this morning. No cycle run for me this morning, too many domestics and building tasks to do. But the temps are making me itch for sliding.
Trouble is, I have a feeling in my bones. I remember dry autumns like this. Great for cycling and climbing. And I remember arriving in L2A to see the lower slopes green, not white, at Christmas. The next time Autumn was like this I remember mud-hopping at Crans for months.
Well, I'm out in the Alps next weekend and I will look to see what the marmots are doing, what the berry crop is, and which other random and completely misleading signs of nature are about. No climbing on this trip, since it's a social round. Crampons and axes will be looked at longingly .... then put back in the cupboard.
Itching....and I can't scratch it.
So then there's the smell in the air ....snow...snow.....
Well...if there's no snow this year ... perhaps I'll get out the Amp B2 and do some things on a bike I haven't done before ...
The truly amazing thing about that video is the weather. Light winds and glorious sunshine on Skye? as if.
I do like the way they show the somersault over a fence three times, because all the preceding segment wasn't very exciting but doing a forward over barbed wire? That's clearly a league above!
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Well, it will be 25 degrees at the end of this week here near Geneva, so I won't be dusting off my skis just yet.