{"id":17020,"date":"2012-12-30T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17020"},"modified":"2012-12-30T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:23:33","slug":"melting-snow-on-the-mukluk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/melting-snow-on-the-mukluk\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting Snow on the Mukluk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Danielle was in the garage where I’d put the Mukluk to thaw after today’s ride and noticed that the melting snow on the front wheel looked pretty nifty, so I took a picture of it.<\/p>\n

This comes after an afternoon ride at River Bends where Rodney and I set fatbike tracks through most of the trail and smoothed out the trail for other riders. Jeremy met up with us there as well, but with the 4-8″ of snow on the trail he split off from us a bit earlier and we went on to ride a bit more.<\/p>\n

Most of our riding was through deep powder, with a couple of deep, partially-frozen puddles in the newest piece of trail. Trekking through the powder and adding the water from the puddles resulted in quite a bit of heavy buildup on the rims, resulting in buildup like this: 1<\/a> · 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was really worth it, as Rodney and I making two passes through each bit of trail ridden was the equivalent of 8 bikes passing over, and this left a 12″-ish wide packed path ready for future riders. There’s still a bit of single track which we didn’t ride, but I’m hoping to get out there in the next day or so to finish the job.<\/p>\n

Here’s the complete set of photos from today:<\/p>\n