Freezing tears  On the ride home tonight I decided to go without my glasses. I usually wear them to protect my eyes from the cold. However, with a neck gaiter over my mouth, the steam from my breath usually clouds the glasses so I can't see. Without the glasses, that wasn't a problem and I could wear the gaiter to just below my eyes, and if everything was just right, my eyes stayed relatively warm. When everything wasn't right, I could almost feel the ice forming in the corners of my eyes.

The temperature on the ride home was just under 30°F. Most of the ice and snow has melted from the trail and there was only one short stretch that was a little tricky, especially at night, trying to find a gap in the ice with my Niterider light. On the clear stretches I slowed for a bit and just coasted, trying to hear the sounds of the deer that scurry off the trail as I approach.

Tomorrow's my one year anniversary at bikes@vienna. A good anniversary gift would be having the redesign of the site that I worked on for serveral weeks finally go live. We'll see.
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:24 PM #