{"id":4016,"date":"2012-01-14T23:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T04:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2012-01-14T23:21:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T04:21:53","slug":"first-properly-snowy-ride-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/first-properly-snowy-ride-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"First Properly Snowy Ride of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/biking\/P1140033.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/100087-2\/P1140033.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Jeremy Verbeke's Epic and my Mukluk on a snowy day time ride at Stony Creek.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With the unseasonably warm weather that we&#8217;ve been having in Michigan today was the first properly snowy ride that I&#8217;ve been able to go on. Jeremy Verbeke and I headed up to Stony Creek, parking at and heading in through the hole in the fence, and rode a full lap of the trail, including all of the single track and a bunch of two track in the southeast part of the park. Today&#8217;s 18\u00b0F, little wind, and slightly cloudy skies was as perfect of winter riding as one could ask for.<\/p>\n<p>The trail conditions were perfect, with a good layer of firm, packing, tacky snow on almost everything and no mud. There were some notable frozen ruts throughout The Pines which were clearly the result of over-anxious riders during the last few weeks freeze\/thaw cycles, but they weren&#8217;t anything that I can see being a problem long term. Most of the trail was in great shape.<\/p>\n<p>Riding, while hard, was otherwise uneventful. Despite snowing riding (and Jeremy&#8217;s first time out properly riding in snow) neither of us fell, nor were there any close calls. This was a really nice ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the unseasonably warm weather that we&#8217;ve been having in Michigan today was the first properly snowy ride that I&#8217;ve been able to go on.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/first-properly-snowy-ride-of-2012\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Properly Snowy Ride of 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}