More Winter Riding

[flatcar]

Ok the cold weather is coming again. Where do you ride in the winter?

[ironweed]

Gonna go hang out with Stretch in AZ. Sunset route.

[flatcar]

Send me some pics from Gila Bend!

[ironweed]

Will do. It sounds like Frog will be down there to.

[stretch-burl]

and dantie for the winter

[boozebomb]

Im doin the work tramp this year back to ID.May head down that way after the season though plans in the air.

[kidblaze2k]

left washington in december, been in various parts of cali for 6 weeks, went up to the Grand Canyon to explore, Denver then colorado mtns and back to Denver, now outside KCMO gonna ride south to NOLA across to Jax then north to New England on NS. It is pretty damn cold here right now, all day long, and windy today. Coming out of Amarillo yesterday I got hailed, snowed and rained on in a 48, mysleeping bag was soaked by the time I reached Kansas. Luckily I have a friend here who picked me up on the outskirts of Argentine and drove me over here to stay indoors.
I'm wearing/carrying a zipneck wool shirt. a wool t, a cotton t, two wool sweaters, a nylon jacket, nylon shell pants, cotton BDUs, wool long underwear, 3 pairs of sox, pac boots, sneakers, wool hat, and gloves (will upgrade to mittens before new england). Also got a warm down sleeping bag, and nylon tarp and groundcloth, an alcohol cookstove, coffee mug, and cooking pot with lid. Should have sleeping pad but it blew off a piggyback coming out of Pasco 2 months ago.

The gear is what makes it or breaks it. You can be utterly miserable without the right shit, or completely comfortable with it.

[flatcar]

You might be a bit over dressed. We are averaging tempratures in the 50's this year.

[kidblaze2k]

I've been in Iowa for a while now. There was freezing rain all day yesterday then it turned into snow, I was soaking wet so I flew up a motel with my sign. I lost track of how much $ I made so it turned out I made 70$ when the motel was only 30$. 2 nights ago the Sally Ann got me a room in Willmar Minnesota.Also 30$ I think. It was pretty cold for real and I forgot my pac boots which is why I rode back to Iowa.
It's nice to see there are still 30 buck motels. It amazes me how people can spend 80-100 bucks on your median motel room. Crazy

[KaBar]

Back in 1975 I stayed in a motel room out West that cost SEVEN BUCKS. It was clean and nice, too. The shower had endless hot water!