Oh, I miss the snow and my infrequent (yet challenging and exhilerating) snowy and icy commute from Maryland, through DC and into Alexandria. I had studded tires on my old mountain bike, and I did not ever have a wipeout, although I did without the studded tires once.

While the roads get cleared pretty quickly, the National Park Service does not clear the path that I rode on (Mt. Vernon for the locals), so the studded tires were quite useful long after the snowy event. And they sound cool, too.

It snowed here last week, but it didn't stick. Sure was pretty, though.