Surly Pugsley commuting...

I woke up to view out the window of a covering of snow this morning.
The view out the front door at 7.30am, only right to ride pugsley to work in this...



The roads though were well gritted and clear of snow,even the back road i took bahh..
the snow was heavy once at work,around 2" and it was not too wet, getting into the festive spirit my workmate was adorning a "i love shinty" headband!!


Out on the golf course there was some covering of snow, ponds looked good with the snow on top of the ice...



In a nearby field is this lovely old hawthorn..damm its thorns though...


In the wood you can see these ash and alder trees were once coppiced for wood. See there many trunks per tree...


Its nice just having a look around at everything in different weather...






So what do greenkeepers do when it snows your wondering?, well drink alot of tea, as well as that theres gritting and when you have snow and John Deere gators you just have to go on manoeuvre`s...



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Leaving work i knew the roads would be clear,wet and salted so went home via the offroad commute which is around 4 miles with only 1/4mile of tarmac,over the old right of way beside work...


and onto the wooded part of the john muir way for a mile which had fresh untracked snow..just rabbit tracks and what looked like stoat tracks...
i filmed again with the tachyon camera the last bit through the woods,can see the path easy now with snow..,heres the helmetcam film...




Further on near home again track free snow, i love this..


Tempted to go a quick nightride in the snow tonight as i never went out last night as posting films etc..
It was the winter solstice, mid winter every solstice i usually go a nightride and have a few ciders afterwards. Slowly the nights will start to draw out now. Intrestingly new years eve is a full moon here this year, i cant ever remmember that before ,though some new years i cant rememmber anything about the evening at all...