I’m not sure if today is the best or worst day to discuss protecting our winters. Regardless, here’s Jeremy Jones stating his case for keeping snow around. Viva la snow!
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Jeremy Jones Talks About Protecting Winter
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Cleaning Cross Country Skis
It is officially winter here in the Windy City and with it come the requisite cold temperatures and winter precipitation. That wonderful white stuff, great for anything form making angels to engaging in brutal, icy, nose bleeding warfare. A few years ago Brian and I discovered the joys of Cross Country skiing and have since [...]
Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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Cross-Country Ski Trails in Chicago
Matty and I are heading out early in the morning for our first XC ski outting of the season. It’s supposed to be fairly cold tomorrow so we’re trying to find an alternative to the lake front which can be downright vicious on a good day. We’ve done Herrick Lake in the past, but for [...]
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Waxing XC Skis
Chicago’s temperature index is staying comfortably below freezing now, in fact, most days this week we were below zero with windchill. I haven’t yet committed to the adjustment for riding my bike to work in the mornings, but I think I’ll start with that again next week. My plan for that is to basically dress [...]