Pedal, Skin, Ski, Repeat: Surviving Iceland's Winter With Hestra Athlete Cody Cirillo - SnowBrains

"Cody Cirillo and Matthew Tufts set out to do something that sounds simple until you picture the map, the season, and the wind. In the dead of winter, they bike-packed and skied their way around Iceland on a 1,000-mile, 35-day, human-powered loop. Their new film, A Hundred Words for Wind , released December 18, tracks the whole push, from ice-choked roads and sideways rain to those rare, hard-won windows when the mountains finally opened long enough to climb and ski."

"One day is a full-on arctic blizzard on the bike. The next is skinning into spring corn. Then it turns again, and you find yourself skiing a couloir with cold powder filling yesterday's tracks while gusts shove spindrift across the fall line. In conditions like that, you can have the fitness and the plan and still get stopped by small things. Cold hands that can't brake cleanly. Wet fingers that can't work a zipper."

""In Iceland, the weather changes so quickly that we never knew the day's conditions," Cirillo said. "Forecasts were spotty at best. Biking in arctic blizzards, touring through spring corn, skiing trenched in cold powder. This trip had a little bit of everything. So a proper glove quiver was essential to keeping us ready for it all over the 35-day period.""

Cody Cirillo and Matthew Tufts bike-packed and skied around Iceland on a 1,000-mile, 35-day human-powered winter loop. Conditions shifted rapidly between arctic blizzards, spring corn, and cold powder, creating frequent, unpredictable transitions. Small gear failures such as numb hands, wet fingers, or fumbling bindings posed major risks and delays. Cirillo prioritized hand protection, carrying a comprehensive glove quiver as essential safety gear. As a Hestra-sponsored multi-sport athlete, Cirillo relied on glove choices to sustain riding, touring, climbing, filming, and camping over the month. A proper glove selection and strategy kept mobility, comfort, and function during prolonged exposure to extreme, changeable weather.

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