Last Sunday, after realizing I forgot my lock and my bike shoes, I decided to not leave my bike in Soda Springs so I could ski up the last climb from Kingvale (what a great climb that is) and instead I parked at the Kingvale exit. I skied down to Cisco Grove; the head wind let me “schuss” the downhills to Rainbow lodge and from Loch Leven trail head. At my turnaround in Cisco Grove, it began snowing in earnest. Roller skiing in a snow storm was a first for me. The snow didn’t stick on the road but it was definitely wet; and I didn’t detect any decriment in traction on the roller skis, which dispelled my lingering fears that these skinny wheels would not be as good on wet pavement as the old Proski wide wheels. In fact, these might even be better. However, I did not test them on the road striping. I’d guess that is begging to slip and go down. By the end of that outting it also was clear that riding my bike down the hill from Soda Springs to pick up the van would have been brutally cold, so it all turned out for the best after all.
