2009-02-04 49 12

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Up in a larger mountainous forest area, 5km north of Bach an der Donau, about 25km east of Regensburg. Probably an idyllic place several kilometers from the next village.

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I left only around 7:20 in the morning, instead of 6:00 as I had planned, and cycled to Bach an der Donau through the freezing fog. After giggling at the roadsign "Kittenrainstraße" I had already seen during the 2008-10-18 49 12 expedition, I arrived at the end of "Sturmmühlweg", on the edge of the forest area, at around 9:00.

I found the path leading up into the forest covered with a clear, solid layer of at least 2cm of very slippery ice, and after a few meters for testing how well I could push my bike on this surface, I decided to call it a failure instead of spending all day inching my way to the hash and quite certainly slipping and hurting myself in the process.

However, before turning around, I mounted the time-lapse camera (previously seen in 2009-01-31 48 12) to the back of my bike bag and recorded the full ride back to the office, where I arrived at 10:30.

Parking my bike there, I noticed a crust of ice from the freezing fog had accumulated on all forward surfaces on my bike and jacket, even on my GPS.

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  Too slippery to continue :-/

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  Frozen stuff below the thick ice.

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  3.3km to go - not even close.