Happiness

Happy Zorro and Jack towing me to the finish on yesterday morning's skijor run!

All smiles on Zorro. All smiles on Jack. Pure Siberian Husky Happiness! :)

The prior photo shows happy Zorro and Jack as we finished the day's run. But, before hooking up little Jack for the finish, Zorro and I had a great time skijoring French Gulch.

French Gulch has two great attributes. I love it for the gentle terrain which lets me glide behind strong Zorro for mile and miles and miles...

Come along for a quick glimpse of the perfect trail conditions in French Gulch. So much fun to glide behind Zorro and take in the scenery.

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Okay, so "endless, gentle terrain" is one great attribute of French Gulch. The other, you ask? Well... MOOSE!!! While we did not see an actual moose on the outing, we did encounter some VERY fresh smelling moose tracks. We were gliding along far back in the gulch and I saw some moose looking tracks to our right. Zorro did not acknowledge them at first, so I figured they were not fresh. But, just as I was declaring them "stale moose tracks", Zorro got a whiff and immediately launched himself off trail and hurried into the lovely smelling moose tracks.

"Oh my, these smell delicious!!!!!!" declares moose inspecting Zorro.

You know moose tracks are very fresh if Zorro sniffs and then immediately pulls his head up to scan for the moose itself. If they are only mildly fresh, he will sniff longer, but very fresh causes him to quickly snap his head up to find the lovely smelling moose:

"Was just here! Must be near! Let's go this way!!!!!!" declares Zorro and his moose sonar.

Even with Zorro's intensity & desire, we did not fall for following the moose tracks into the thick and tall brush you see in front of us in the prior photo. Those bushes are as tall as me once you get in deep and you can just imagine us running into a well camouflaged moose by mistake!

Despite the wimpy human's refusal to follow the moose into the brush, it was still a great day skijoring French Gulch:

"New snow, fast terrain, fresh moose tracks and hooking up little Jack. What a day!" exclaims
happy Zorro.

A great run with tasty moose tracks and fun Jack tracks to complete the day: 8.8 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2017/2018 Season to Date: 16 days on the trails covering 114.2 miles with 10,300 feet of elevation climbed.

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