We got our first measurable snow in Boise yesterday. New record for measurable snow since Oct 12 (Columbus day) 1948. Must be that damn "Global Warming Chrisis" that fat Al was talking about in his novel.
I'd just finished an '06 Ultra/Astro rig conversion and was getting to road test when it started, Brrrrrrrrr! Cold wet ride but it handles like a dream. Pix on the Album Site here.
Have to get me one of those after the economy levels out with all the wonderful "Changes" we've been hearing about.
Enjoy the season all,
Lonnie
Brrr. That picture says a thousand words.
Rig looks nice.
Nice rig Lonnie. I think you got more snow out of that storm than we did here in the mountains. I just dropped off a new tire at the tire shop to have studs installed. The snows a bit early, but I'm ready.
We are really getting hit here in Montana. +30 MPH winds for the last two days and a lot more to come today and tomorrow. At least all the snow is hitting the ground and then blowing over towards Idaho! We are setting in our Motorhome with the hack nestled into its trailer. Heading for Nevada in a couple weeks to warmer climates. I am sure you don't all agree but I say " WINTER SUCKS!" I'll send ya'll a postcard with a palm tree in it! Smitty.....Frozen in Dillon
Douglas, you seem to be a snow bird.
Funny thing beside. The little kind Lady (of her brand called a snow bird) who picked me up after my Norton Comando crashed in Death Valley in her beadle (with the hook on the front) and brought me to the next Hospital in Las Vegas. had the name Lee Snow.... (God bless her soul)
With the age the bones start to ake, so desert climate does very well... but to play in the snow has no comparison to any other game... specially when you live in the tropics and miss it from the botumn of your soul.
Sven Peter
10ºN, 84ºW
Here is what we got. About a foot or more in my yard:o) looks like it's time to start my winter project.
Sheesh, you're showing me what I know is to come. Dont know if I'm too happy about this LOL.
Safe riding Karl.
Ya, I have become a snow bird in my later years. Growing up in MT. I used to winter camp, ski, snowshoe, all the winter stuff. What ruined me was working outside for so many winters. No matter how cold it would get, we would work. That just got harder and harder to the point I didn't care to do it anymore. Enough frost bite and hypothermia for a life time. So, now I am a whimp! (At least a warm whimp).
Wish I had my hack out here!Just sitting in motel in Pueblo,Will be in Yuma and hopefully warm and comfortable by Tuesday.Have a Moto-Guzzi in Az but no hack!Would like to find one there but darn things take up as much room as a car in the garage!Easier to tuck the bike into a corner!Left MH home this winter with the cost of fuel.Getting 30MPG out of my HHR pulling the motorvation trailer from my rig!Funny thing is thats better than my 1500/champion rig gets.Will think of all you back in the snow,60years up there in Mn-Wi is enough!!Learned that there are places that have blue sky and warm sun every day!!BOB
"That just got harder and harder to the point I didn't care to do it anymore. Enough frost bite and hypothermia for a life time. So, now I am a whimp!"
Your history sounds a bit like mine. The difference is that the sidecar allows me to experience the winter with a degree of comfort that skiing, winter camping, and ice climbing can't provide. I'll be 60years old next year. I've lived in snow country 44 of those years. I imagine I'll get tired of it one day. For now I think it's a blast.
Well, I know how it feels to get frozen to your fishing rod(-20ºC)and have open knuckles for 3 month. Until I listened to grandma, threw away the medicine and simply washed my hands 3 times a day in lamp petroleum (For you in US Lamp cerrosene). Or the shock when you slip from a oak branch and the chain saw passes the reinforced boot. That is now this 20 year old history.
But living now in the tropics makes you miss the seasons, specially spring.
Best regards
Sven
I'm lucky as my employer covers the cost of my fuel(@ 8-10 mpg) when heading south. We have projects in So. Nevada which will get me within 4 hours of our winter home base in Yuma AZ. I will hook the hack back up and plan on a lot of "winter" riding in the S.W. The Anza Borrego Desert / Salton Sea / Death Valley are great "winter" areas to ride. I'll be thinking of you guys up north, enjoying your "winter" riding. Once I spent one winter at 60 to 80 degrees I was ruined for life. Love my home state of MT. but have to admit that AZ. isn't too bad a place!
