Friday, October 23, 2009

Endless Summer

It's almost Novemeber and we are now coming upon New Zealand Summer. It is Spring now and the nights are cold and the days get up to "cool" and sunny. I run the heat at night

Before this we spent a year in OZ with pretty much endless summer. Before that was British Columbia summer spent surfing and enjoying Vancouver Island. Before that was spent enjoying the Arizona WInter (but a summer for most people). Then again before that was Vancouver Island. And again...right before that a bit of AZ Winter=summer. Sooo....let me calculate this, that is nearly 30 months of summer in the past 3 years. WOw...I probably have 10 days of skiing in three years and probably close to 800 days on the bike. I guess that answers the question of which I prefer....or does it.

Plannin on stayin in NZ for a year. In 8months time there will be cold, full blown winter. Wet socks and defrosting the car windshield. But there will also be amazing backcountry POWDER days without a cloud in the sky. Funny how I am thinking of this now...on a beautiful sunny day gettin ready to head off into the backcountry on my bike. I guess I am just excited about the seasons again. Excited but also wondering if I can still handle winter