To overcome the one and only negative side effect of the home office, namely lack of exercise caused by the minimal distance between desk and coffee maker, last spring I have started cycling, and I try my best to maintain exercise even in winter, albeit not so much in the mountains but in the valleys. The snow gives enough resistance to create a good training effect. Funny enough I found it very difficult in the beginning to combine cycling and photography: The motion-induced endorphines made me cycle on and on instead of stopping when it would be a good opportunity to photograph. But slowly I am getting better.
Biking in winter is great fun, and bike tires grip well in new snow, but ice can be treacherous. What you need is a fat tire bike. The grip and security is amazing, and it is still a fine workout. I also found it hard to combine photography and biking. Pictures were mostly in my mind.
Definitely fun, Jeff, I fully agree. Especially in fresh snow, when you only hear a low level whizz from the dispersed snow while cruising through a otherwise silent landscape. This bike is already a oldtimer, built approx. 1995, from the best Aluminium tubes. Therefore 2.1″ tires are the biggest dimension possible for this frame.