Snow is starting to fall outside, and soon the world will be covered in a new blanket of snow. A lot happened behind the scenes leading up to tonight, part of what I called “operation groundhog.” I can finally share the details.
On January 31st at 6 PM, a top decision was made to leave my snow bike in my car, pretending snow wasn’t a priority anymore. I even put the bike up for sale at MSU campus over the next three days. By February 1st at 3 AM, with the snow bike seemingly off my radar, I switched to my cross bike, even doing a couple of training rides on it.
Today at 11 AM, while I was covertly making old man winter think I was prepping for spring, another person, let’s call him Rich, joined the operation. He planned a risky skiing trip to Lost Trail, four hours away, and took Thursday off, expecting good weather for safe travels.
So, the stage was set, and the opposition – old man winter – went on high alert just moments ago. At 11:56 PM tonight, snow witches were dispatched to whip up a winter storm. Our insider, codenamed Wiarton Willie, overheard the wintry warlock grumbling about us enjoying spring-like conditions.
There you have it, the full story of how we tricked old man winter in 2012. Ha!
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