Endless June

Look at all the snow still on the trails near the top of Buffalo Pass. Wow!

"Wow indeed! Can we skijor ALL summer?" asks the super happy trio at
our turnaround near the top of Buffalo Pass.

If you weren't impressed by the prior photo, how about this one: opening up the skijoring engine on June 19th! Wheeee!

June 19th - Wow!

If you look closely at the previous photo, you can see some of the slush bombs coming off Zorro, Jack and Rudy's feet. You can also see their footprints showing the snow was a bit soft; but it was still plenty firm enough to open up and run up/down Buffalo Pass this morning!

Come along and watch an excerpt from this morning's outing. You can see the softness slowing us a bit; but it was still firm enough to go, go, go! Is it really June 19th?

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Given warming June temperatures, you knew what would happen at our turnaround point of the morning :)

"Goofballs!" states happy Zorro.
"Rolling, cooling, aaahhh!" adds the goofballs.

Today was our latest ever skijor outing and I had my skis on the entire outing! Typically in June we will hit stretches of dirt or mud and have to take the skis off and hike over. But not today, our latest skijor ever and the skis never came off! There were a few patches that will be dirt/mud soon, but not yet today - yay!

"You kids do not know how incredible this June has been!" Zorro is telling the youngsters
as we see a bit of exposed road for one of only a few times all morning!

It really is June, so even Zorro rolled a snow angel to cool off. But, Zorro waited until the outing was OVER before rolling to cool. The goofball twins rolled snow angels before, during and after the morning outing :)

"My turn. Ahhhh and YUM!" says snow rolling and eating Zorro.

The happy trio congregating around me for end of run treats:

"We had so much fun! Now hand them out!" declares the happy & focused trio.

A beautiful run up/down Buffalo Pass this morning: 6.6 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 16 MPH.

Are we done for the season yet? Most likely not; but things really are melting, so we'll see. Stay tuned...

2018/2019 Season to Date: 134 days on the trails covering 787.3 miles with 73,450 feet of elevation climbed