Back on Snow! Yay! Pray for Snow!!!
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| Jack & Rudy laying fresh tracks towing me up Boreas Pass. |
After a record early start to the season in September, we've been waiting for the snow to return. Well, it finally came back last night. There was just enough snow for Jack, Rudy and I to get out and skijor up/down Boreas Pass. "No Zorro?" you ask. Well, at almost 12.5 years old, Zorro is now retired from skijoring. He's a very healthy 12.5 but he is 12.5. He still enjoys getting out for light walks and will even do some light downhill jogging; but he is retired from trying to keep pace with Jack & Rudy skijoring. He does come along (see last picture below) to participate in the family outing!
Anyway, back to this morning. We drove partway up Boreas Pass Road until the snow was deep enough to get out and start skijoring up the pass. Jack & Rudy towed me up a bit over 2 miles before it was time to turnaround. Why turnaround? Well, we were approaching treeline on Boreas and the snow was starting to thin due to the usual high winds above treeline on Boreas. A new skijor season, what do you think Jack & Rudy did at our turnaround point? Yep... Rolling snow angels! 3 year old Jack has now rolled at least one snow angel on EVERY outing of his young life! Rudy has had a handful of skijor without a snow angel roll, but he's rolled them on over 90% of his outings too :)
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| "Turnaround roll around!" declares the snow rolling goofs. |
While Jack & Rudy are fast towing me uphill, they are "pedal to the metal" downhill. Once we turned around it was time to floor it back down Boreas. Come along for a short glimpse of the fun back down (the tracks you see to our left were our uphill track):
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Since the snow was somewhat thin, Nancy gave us a 30 minute head start and then she and Zorro drove up Boreas to find us. Typically in October I cannot make it down to where we started as we can start uphill on thinner snow than I can go downhill with my pulling partners. On the way down, we encountered Nancy and Zorro coming up to find us. But, the snow was still good enough to keep on going. So, I gave a "forward" call to Jack & Rudy and the gave Nancy a happy glance but continued on going :)
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| "Hi Mom! Bye Mom! We are still going! Wheeee!" says cute Jack & Rudy giving Nancy a happy glance as we go on by. |
Eventually the snow did get too thin to continue down, so we stopped and met up with Nancy & Zorro again. Here's the highlight of Zorro's retirement: he still gets "end of run" treats with the pack! What a retirement - come along for team support, hang with Mom, then join in the treat party! His treats are much smaller than Jack & Rudy's since we don't want him gaining weight (versus the kids who need to refuel); but he doesn't know that. All he knows is he still gets "end of run" treats!!!!
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| "Remember - me first!" says super focused Zorro. "Then me, then me!" says cute Jack. "Look at my patience!" demonstrates Rudy!!! |
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