This time of year getting to some of my usual spots becomes considerably more challenging – if not impossible in some cases. Conversely the amount of snow allows for easier access to spots inaccessible other times of year. Both well worth the effort.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” –John Muir
One of the great things about bikes is the cool places they’ll take you to. And you can go even further if you’re willing to sit for awhile once you get there.
“Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely…