Oh, right, it is winter in the northern hemisphere
Despite increasingly pessimistic weather reports, I’d decided that this would be a good day to ride Portland-Ripplebrook-Portland. Despite appearances in Portland, it is winter, and once we got about about 600 feet the snow appeared and made the ride just a little more interesting than it would normally be.
I did discover that once you’ve changed the battery in a Garmin 205, it becomes somewhat less resistant to water; my 205 lasted until we were almost to Estacada on the return, then bluescreened and died. It is now taken apart and lying on my desk where it will hopefully dry out to the point where I can use it again.
Oh, and thanks to lengthy stops at controls, the loop took 11h35, which was rather more than I was expecting before I reached the first band of snow!