12 hours - Strathmore & Rockyford Alberta

8am. I've been at work for over 1hr already. This is my desk. It's where the magic happens. 9AM. Parts lists waiting for review. Not as exciting as the colors make them look.

10AM. Coffee with Cory. I think I'm one of only a handful of people on earth who can actually understand him. He is a neat guy though. And, he's my friend.
11AM. A fixie that distracts me on my desk. Even made it to FGG once.

12PM. My friends, those are indeed real vegetables, just as foil wrapper said.

1PM. My addiction.

2PM. Someone driving by the office just as the blizzard started rolling in.

3PM. A shop tour looking for some parts.

4PM. Snow starting to stick to the office windows.

5PM. Gas station sign I pass right as I leave work. 6PM. Very slow drive home. That's a U-Haul truck with a trailer in the ditch. Cops making sure we all slow down.

7PM. After dinner. At least it didn't say "that wasn't chicken".

8PM. All 3 children in bed. Now, enjoy some of the good stuff.

12 Hrs in Colorado - Paul

8:00 AM Getting ready for the ride to work



9:00 AM Chilly,gray morning but a wonderful ride!



10:00 AM An "Office Space" moment



11:00 AM Stacey was checking out my tires looking for
some ideas for her winter bike commute




12:00 Lunch - Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore!




1:00 PM Back from lunch, behind my office




2:00 PM Too much free time or perhaps the result of
a pint of ale at lunch? Hmm....




3:00 PM Bribing desktop support to install a new program on my computer.




4:00 PM Co-workers start flying out of the office to start their weekend





5:00 PM Heading back to Boulder




6:00 PM The Boulder Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall, a great place
to hang during the holidays.




7:00 PM The facade in front of the REI store. It was a tough choice for a Friday night, tango lessons, or a program at REI on climbing in the Himalayas.
The Himalayas won out this time.



8:00 PM Wrapping up the climbing program at REI

I failed....

Kurt's Pugsley grin!

No 12hr in photos for me today...*sigh*...I had some good reasons though. I'm headed to Baja early next week and I had to finish up a big pile of work in the AM, had festive lunch with a friend and then helped my buddy Kurt build up his Pugsley.

Because we had a pretty good snowstorm the Pugsley build effort started at 2pm and wrapped up at 10pm. Of course there was a 2hr "test ride" in there somewhere, but that's essential when you are taking a bike on a trip far away from the nearest LBS.

We'll do a 12hr in photos down in Baja. It will be much more scenic than shots of the inside of my apartment!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season...=-)

We'll be camped where the arrow is pointing.

Juneau, Alaska

To add to the pictures of bicycle riding in the frozen Northland ...

9 a.m. The view at breakfast. Yawn.

10 a.m. The trip to the post office is becoming a daily chore for me. I don't mind at all. :-)

11 a.m. Riding into the Mendenhall Valley on the Dredge Lake trails, mouth agape.

12 p.m., heading back toward the highway on some nondescript road. Mouth still agape.

1 p.m.: Life's good between Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.

2 p.m.: An interpretive photo of the Hard North Wind. It brought in a blast of frigid air from Canada, gusting right in my face. The temperature was probably about 25 degrees. The windchill couldn't have been warmer than 5.

3 p.m.: Alpenglow on the distant mountains.

4 p.m.: The last bit of daylight and a really bright planet over Auke Rec. I'm not sure which planet it was - a bright one.

5 p.m.: The self-portrait I took after my sad attempts to take a photo of the moon. I don't have a proper camera for night shots, so you'll just have to take my word that it was the most amazing full moon I have ever seen. The Hard North Wind was tearing clouds of snow off the mountains. As the moon rose, it illuminated the ridgelines with this soft, intense glow, almost as bright as daylight. I couldn't take my eyes off the moon, which was rough because I was back in the traffic of Juneau proper and it was rush hour.

6 p.m.: Having dinner with Geoff, our friend Christina and a couple of our parasitic cats.

7 p.m.: Trying to figure out what's going on in my friends' children's play. At this point, my head was nearly as fuzzy as this picture.

8 p.m.: For seven-hour rides in the freezer, there's no better recovery food than a huge spread of Christmas cookies.

Edmonton, AB

Here's 12 hours in and around Edmonton. I'm missing one picture because I was working but I think you'll still get the idea.0800 - meeting friends at the diner for breakfast. Poor fellow had a rough night.

0900 - Diner. Friends. Bike.

1000 - Preparing to build a new front mudflap out of a yogurt container for those near useless "quick release" fenders.

1100 - Brief test ride in the snow for the new mudflap. Better than no mudflap.

1200 - making lunch

~1300 - Neighbours roof, a little later than 1300 actually, I took a nap after lunch (the way they do in pre-school).

1400

1500 - Pilot costume. A little early to dress for a 1700 flight but it's cool because the earlier I get ready the more time I can spend at the coffee shop before work.

1600 - My cup has wings because I'm a pilot.

1700 - Or a little after 1700. It's tough to take pictures inside the cockpit during a night flight. So this is the moon from 19 000' on the way to Fort McMurray.

1800 - Empty aeroplane waits for passengers

2000 - Saying goodbye to aeroplane