Toronto

I know a number of us appreciate photography that's out of the ordinary.. so here's a site I stumbled across today.

http://www.blursurfing.com/

Drakino (Tom) was in Toronto over this past weekend, and apparently did get to see a few views similar to some of these, but..

Speaking of which, he left us here (Ottawa) a few hours ago, and should be settling into a hotel in Montreal by now.

Cheers

nice - ty

What are the high temps lately up there? I would think Tom must be freezing his butt off.

Yeah, turned cold just as he arrived. The day before was in the 20C range, but everything dropped to the 8-14C range since then.

My luck with the temperature had to expire at some point. Most of the northern portion was decent though. Today marks my start back south, and hopefully back to some warmth soon. When riding in the cold, I make sure to take enough breaks to enjoy Tim Horton's

I know you've been keeping up with the weather forecasts, but you're heading back down at the right time. It's getting cold enough that I don't even want to be working outside - and I have a bunch of planting to do still. There have already been snow warnings for my mother-in-law's cottage, albeit 6 hours North-ish of here.

Don't get into trouble at the border.

Nice photos.

-Peter

Wimp!

When I was in high school I had a paper route, and I delivered newspapers with my motorcycle at temperatures colder than minus 60 F [-51 C]. I have gone out mountain biking with the bike club at minus 40 F [-40 C] but that was just once to prove I could do it. After that -10 F [-23 C] was my cutoff because below that the bike just didn't work very well: the lubricants in the cables, derailleurs, and bearings got too stiff to work properly, and enough layers of clothing were required that it was extra work just to spin the pedals.

Some of our die-hard members nonetheless rode to work every day absolutely regardless of temperature. They'd prep their bikes for winter by removing all lubrication other than some light oil in the wheel bearings and crank bearings, and would wear special high-tech cold weather gear that probably cost more than a typical bicycle. One guy had an eight mile commute that he rode at temperatures as low as -65 F.

For perspective, for winter mountain biking we wore exactly the same gear (minus the skis, of course) as a cross country skier.

tanstaafl.

I'm not quite that adventurous on this trip That, and any extra gear meant for just a few days of use turns into space hogging things in my bags. As Mark saw, I need that room for all the tech stuff I brought

Snow flurries here today. I wonder if Tom found any of them on the way out of Montreal?

The past couple weeks here have had some rainy days, but besides those it's been amazing. The past couple days have been 65-80 during the days with no humidity and clear skies - simply gorgeous. The nights have been cold, but perfect fall cold weather.

Today is ridiculously windy, but otherwise beautiful.

Nothing to make any real accumulation, but a few flakes fell when I had lunch before departing. And a few in upstate New York as well. Glad I got to my destination when I did, it's going to be below freezing soon.

Heated gloves... It's the only thing I really needed that I didn't get. Everything else is working out well.