Finally, as the weather gets colder, lots of riders go to heavier gloves, because their hands get numb.
That also meant I got to experience the winter – mild this year, but still bone-chillingly cold and lots and lots of snow.
Like "Cold Mountain," a lot of "Thirteen Moons" is episodic, a string of adventure stories — about hunting or fighting or other kinds of hostile encounter.
So they spent ages painting me, and then I went out into the freezing-cold lot, and Ken shouted: "Not that green!" All day I went back and forth between makeup and the set, until finally Ken was happy with the colour.
It had been a great day: dinner with friends, raucous stories, cold beer, lots of laughter.
Bolivian food is suited to the high, cold climate: lots of peppers, aji and spices.
There is wide agreement, though, that in the words of Mike Maillet, a maintenance foreman for the Alaska Railroad, "It's just been a strange year, the thaws, the cold, then lots of snow".
Cold winters, lots of moisture and warm, brief summers also apparently help.
"Come the winter there will be a cold snap, lots of snow, and the same guys, like [Washington Post columnist] E.J. [Dionne], will start lecturing us.
