Snow

[Ritamarie]

(a 1982 Chevy Caprice). Now THAT was a boat.

LOL, yes that WOULD be a boat. My daughter's car is an '92 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight. It's a good car for a new driver! Big enough to offer some protection but new enough to have airbags. It does roll down the road like a boat though. Gas mileage is a killer, but it keeps her close to home.

[Zen]

My daughter's car is an '92 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight.

Does she know this song?

[Cataboo]

Just cause I finally got the pics from snowshoeing off my camera:







I walked across after he plowed the way:

[HillSlugger]

Just cause I finally got the pics from snowshoeing off my camera

Pretty! Where was that?

[Cataboo]

Pretty! Where was that?

It was actually in Burtonsville just off Briggs Cheney Road... There's some woods and a nature center back there with a lot of mountain biking/walking trails.

[7rider]

It was actually in Burtonsville just off Briggs Cheney Road... There's some woods and a nature center back there with a lot of mountain biking/walking trails.

Fairland??
DivingBiker and I keep saying we're going to go mtb'ing there...but we have yet to go.

[Bike Chick]

Beautiful photos, Catriona! How peaceful and serene! Ahhhhhhh

[Cataboo]

Thanks for all the compliments on the pictures.

More photos here, if anyone's interested:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=375a2c561b
(but... they all have snow and about 3/4 have a stream in it)

Fairland??
DivingBiker and I keep saying we're going to go mtb'ing there...but we have yet to go.

Okay, I consulted R - we were between Briggs Chaney & Fairland, but he thinks maybe most people would call that fairland.

The nature center is Maydale:
http://mncppcparks.org/park_of_the_d...kday_feb7.shtm

Basically, the area around here;
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&cl...,0.055747&z=15

All of the green is park and I think there's more woods around them that connects the parks/trails together - lots of trails, lots of sections where kids have been making ramps/obstacles. And granted, I suck at mountain biking - but harder than schaeffer, I'd say.. and by lots of trails, they take me a long time, which may not mean they take everyone else a long time Looking at the map, it really doesn't seem like there's much woods around there, but there's enough to get lost in and feel out of touch with civilization for a while.

R said if you want to mountain bike over there, you should do it fast before the inner county connector takes it away.


Tomorrow I'm gonna go ski up at ski liberty in the morning, and then probably grab the snowshoes and head up Gambrill mountain or Cacoctin mountain park to walk around if anyone has a snow day.

[Ritamarie]

Just cause I finally got the pics from snowshoeing off my camera:

Wow, gorgeous. So artistic!

[owlice]

Catriona, gorgeous pictures! And I had no idea you were so close to me; I'm just down the road!

:: pondering the area to figure out where the woods and nature center are ::

[Cataboo]

Catriona, gorgeous pictures! And I had no idea you were so close to me; I'm just down the road!

:: pondering the area to figure out where the woods and nature center are ::

Thanks - that's actually near the BF's house. We were arguing whose house to get snowed in at, he won 'cause they were supposed to get more snow over there.

*grump*

But I'm over there fairly often and do end up mountain biking or road biking around there.

Even though I HATE road biking on Brigg's Chaney. New Hampshire or Georgia don't bother me for some reason.

[owlice]

I rode on Briggs Chaney decades ago, when I was on a bike ride with a friend of mine from high school -- we were in college by then -- and it's a good thing he was a stronger rider than I, because if I'd caught up with him, I'd probably still be serving time for his murder. It was an extremely dangerous road to be on, one-lane bridge and all, in addition to it being a bit on the challenging side for me, AND it was a blasting hot day. It didn't help that we started the ride at his house, which means I had ridden over there from my house.

So we finally get to what he thought our turnaround point should be... the parking lot overlooking the old country club's swimming pool, which we couldn't enter, of course. He lived because my hands didn't have the strength to wring his neck. Plus, I had no idea where we were nor how to get back to familiar territory.

Of course we had no water with us; my road bike, a hand-me-down from my older brother, didn't even have a cage. Boy, did that pool look inviting! Boy, was I wishing for more strength in my hands!

Looking back on this, I can't believe I did such a ride. (I can say that about every ride I took with him, though that particular one really does strike me as unbelievable, and not just because we both lived through it.) I was an occasional rider only. Even with the improvements since then on Briggs Chaney, there are only parts of the road I'd consider riding on now (those parts bordering my community).

Wow. Memory dump. Sorry!

(The bike was the Panasonic "Bu!!sh!t" bike I finally gave away through Freecycle three or four years ago. I've since seen the bike parked at the Greenbelt Metro; it's quite distinctive!)

[jaydee]

I just love all your photos. And I am surprised that the dogs love the snow so much - I would have thought they would rather not venture out.

It is shaping up to a warm Christmas here with air conditioning going full bore and hot sleepless nights.

So thanks for all you wonderful pics. I would so love to try snow shoeing - it sounds such fun.

[tulip]

Shiloh ADORES the snow! I have some great photos on my iphone, but I can't seem to get them off. I'll keep working on it.

[Ritamarie]

Does she know this song?

Too funny!! I don't think I want her to know that song!