Huts and Views

Everybody enjoying today's skijor?

"YES!!!!" says the happy trio looking back to me during a quick pause on the trails.

Today was a beautiful bluebird morning with a couple of inches of fresh snow on the trails. To add to the fun, Breckenridge Nordic Center finally has enough snow to groom the upper trails on Peak 7. As a result, we had 1-2 inches of new snow over a freshly groomed nordic trail. We got to fly by the nordic center warming huts and take in all the great views. What fun!!!

He we go flying by the Hallelujah Hut - one of the two "warming huts" on the Peak 7 trails. I believe we may have all 12 feet off the ground in this shot, but I cannot see one of Rudy's feet and the snow puffs behind Jack blurs one of his feet. But, it sure looks like a "fresh tracks hover husky" photo to me :)

Flying by the Hallelujah Hut - wheeee!

Further along the trail and flying by the Kathy's Viewpoint warming hut. No reason to stop, who needs a warming hut? :)

Flying by another hut...

Eventually we got onto the highest shelf of the Peak 7 trails which offers stunning views of the Colorado Rockies!

Nice panorama of the rockies to our front & right.
Nice view of a perfect trail in front of us.
Nice view of the speedy sled dogs in front of me!

Today's video highlight is a beautiful bluebird morning with snow covered trees all around us. Come along as we cruise by Kathy's Viewpoint as we glide along the great conditions. You may wonder why Jack "backs off" a bit about 30 seconds into this clip. Look closely and you see a trail to the right that we could turn onto. Sometimes I call out "right" and sometimes we continue "forward". Jack is simply backing off a bit to see if I call out "right". Once I do not, he quickly launches back up into the team to continue forward. Nice trailwork by Jack!

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Well, you probably knew this was coming, but it is even more comical today than usual. A conjoined snow angel from the silly kids:

"Oh my, look at this! What will they come up with next?!?" asks Zorro surveying the weird kids.
"Haha, conjoined snow angels!!!!" demonstrates the goofball twins. Look closely, you see Rudy's
body in the foreground and those are Jack's four feet in the air coming out of Rudy :)

Finally, a "shot from the front" to end the day. Unfortunately it is not the best with the dark lighting, but you can still make out the happy faces!

Here we come - wheeee!

Today's outing was just shy of 8 miles. To be honest, I did not think 11.5 year old Zorro had any 8 mile outings left in him. Well, he showed me! If we take him on easy & groomed nordic trails, there appears to be plenty of 8+ mile outings left in Zorro's tank!

7.8 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 23 days on the trails covering 147.1 miles with 14,950 feet of elevation climbed.