Just Sitting Here Looking At The Snow

[MikeDD]

And wondering why I am not where it is warmer. I live in WA and am looking for a place to stay for a month or more. We would like a place that is bicycle friendly with paved paths for my wife who rides a Liberty Trike. I would like some off pavement riding.

We are not wanting to camp in the desert and would prefer to be in a condo or house.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Rob Gray]

Hop on down to New Zealand , nice and warm down here,with plenty riding to be done.
But don`t come to the top of the south island as almost very thing closed due to fire risk.

 

[tomjasz]

Nuff!

 

[Deleted member 803]

Nuff!

Bummer, I live in an area of CA where it is usually 80 and sunny 360 days a year. However, this year we have had actual weather with over 2 months of cold and rain. Got a friend who lives a few hours east at altitude in Truckee, CA and his house looks like yours.........

 

[6zfshdb]

San Diego, CA. gets my vote. Lots of trails to ride and a wide range of places to stay. The weather is near perfect year round.



https://fitt.co/san-diego/where-to-ride-all-the-best-bike-trails-san-diego/

 

[MikeDD]

We are heading south after March 18. No destination yet.

 

[tomjasz]

San Diego, CA. gets my vote. Lots of trails to ride and a wide range of places to stay. The weather is near perfect year round.

But California! AND Californians! <tongue in cheek> I lived in S Nevada, Florida, and the USVI for the better part of 30 years. I'll take winter and Minnesota nice, thank you!


Favorite foodie place, S California. I took the seafood for granted. What I wouldn't give for Fish House Vera Cruz...

 

[tomjasz]

Bummer, I live in an area of CA where it is usually 80 and sunny 360 days a year. However, this year we have had actual weather with over 2 months of cold and rain. Got a friend who lives a few hours east at altitude in Truckee, CA and his house looks like yours.........

One month, February. Over 30" of snow and none before that. ALL of February and March started with snow. BUT by the 3rd week, it should be gone and back in upper 50F temps. Shorts and t-shirt weather in MN.

 

[indianajo]

I was out in the snow today, to church & back on the bike. Something special about sleet crystals sticking to my eyelashes & eyebrows. Not enough snow to make ice on the roads, just enough for decoration. I like it here!

 

[bob armani]

San Diego, CA. gets my vote. Lots of trails to ride and a wide range of places to stay. The weather is near perfect year round.

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https://fitt.co/san-diego/where-to-ride-all-the-best-bike-trails-san-diego/

Wow,looks like paradise indeed compared to the Midwest. Would move there in a heartbeat. Thanks for posting these great pics!

 

[MikeDD]

Another 6" today.

 

[Mr. Coffee]

Another 6" today.

Yup.

Supposed to warm up by the weekend. Then we will have the weeks of breakup with smuck and stud.

 

[AlanDB]

As much as I want some warm days and the snow to melt so I can get back out on the trail, my worry now is the potential for flooding. A quick thaw along with a couple of substantial spring rains will close (and likely damage) portions of my favorite local trail (Cedar Valley Nature Trail).

 

[6zfshdb]

As much as I want some warm days and the snow to melt so I can get back out on the trail, my worry now is the potential for flooding. A quick thaw along with a couple of substantial spring rains will close (and likely damage) portions of my favorite local trail (Cedar Valley Nature Trail).

It frequently happens in this neck of the woods as well. Sections of one of my favorites, the C&O Canal Trail, are closed almost every spring due to flooding.

I'm beginning to realize I live in the wrong part of the country to be a serious biker.

 

[tomjasz]

Another 6" today.

Hey Mike, where are you? I’m having my roof shoveled. A good two feet of snow. 6” of heavy wet March snow could be a disaster. And then come the April floods. Argh! This is the toughest winter I’ve had since I retired to MN in 2007.

 

[MikeDD]

Leavenworth, WA. The snow here has been very dry. I use a leaf blower to move an 1" or less. My roof slides with help from a snow rake.

 

[tomjasz]

Leavenworth, WA. The snow here has been very dry. I use a leaf blower to move a 1" or less. My roof slides with help from a snow rake.

nearly 2' on the roof and a new WET heavy snow expected. A WI county across the Mississippi from us has reported over 100 farm building collapses BEFORE this newest threat. ARGH!

 

[Forest]

2 ft! I guess I was lucky, shoveled only foot off the flat garage roof 1200ft.
Rain next week and the drive will flood the garage again. Sun is shining today,
riding fatty across the lake and have beer with a friend, talk pontoon boats.
Life is good today.

 

[Alaskan]

I left Bellingham for California back in January. I was able to ride 9 out of 13 days covering 320 miles. I started riding in Redwood country and made it down to San Diego...great riding around there. I spent four days riding around Ventura which was excellent. They have had a much cooler and wetter than normal winter down there. Living here in Washington that was the natural move. It worked out well. Check out Borego springs, two hours east of San Diego near the Salton Sea...desert country with good roads and giant metal animal sculptures. I didn't get there but next winter I will. Don't miss the Avenue of the Giants.

 

[Dionigi]

I left Bellingham for California back in January. I was able to ride 9 out of 13 days covering 320 miles. I started riding in Redwood country and made it down to San Diego...great riding around there. I spent four days riding around Ventura which was excellent. They have had a much cooler and wetter than normal winter down there. Living here in Washington that was the natural move. It worked out well. Check out Borego springs, two hours east of San Diego near the Salton Sea...desert country with good roads and giant metal animal sculptures. I didn't get there but next winter I will. Don't miss the Avenue of the Giants.

Hopefully next winter you can schedule for February and we can ride the coast and Redwoods of Santa Cruz. April 1 Lynn and I head south first stopping in the Central Valley then to Orange County and finally arriving in San Diego. It has been a wet and cold winter along the central coast, but everything is relative, average high has been 55F. Sunday we ride from Santa Cruz to Monterey for an overnight, about 50 miles each way.