1200 Miles

Look at what the impressive 6 year olds accomplished this morning!

"We are ready for 1200 more!!!" exclaims the happy & proud kids.

Yes indeed, the powerful kids have skijored over 1200 miles 5 seasons in a row now. Quite impressive!

How did we pass 1200 today? Well, on 3-4 inches of fresh snow around the base of Walton Peak at Rabbit Ears Pass. The day was very overcast with light snow falling and a bit of fog. As a result, today's photos are a bit dark albeit very  fun!

Laying fresh tracks in 3-4 inches of fresh snow over an otherwise
wide & packed snowmobile trail.

Now come along for a quick video glimpse into the day's fun. You'll notice the orange poles along the way in this clip. These are trail markers showing where the packed snowmobile trail is. Today was one of the rare days I really needed the trail markers. As you can see in the video, the terrain looks pretty much the same across the whole field of vision. But, if you drifted off the snowmobile trail packed under the day's new snow, you would immediately sink into "Jack & Rudy high" soft snow! So, we really appreciated the trail markers this morning to keep us on track!

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We did an "out & back" route this morning. So, we got to enjoy running in our "out tracks" on the way back:

Whee - Rudy running in my ski track while Jack is in Rudy's foot track.

The one stretch of trail shown in the video above was so fun we actually redid it 4 times (twice each way). As is usual with Jack & Rudy, if I ask them to repeat a trail, they will switch sides to enjoy it from the opposite viewpoint :)

Redoing the section of trail shown in the video but the kids
have switched sides to experience it from the other viewpoint.

Of course repeating one section of trail 4 times meant we turned around 3 times. Well, you know what that meant...

"Turnaround! Roll around!" goes the snow rolling sillies.

5 straight 1200+ mile seasons - that certainly is an accomplishment worthy of end of run treats!

"Focused & ready!" says the happy kids.
No snow walls to climb today, so I had to come down to my pals'
level this time :)

It was a bit blustery and gusty this morning, so we did a quick outing; but enough to surpass our 1200 mile goal: 6.8 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 141 days on the trails covering 1202.1 miles with 119,200 feet of elevation climbed.

Will we reach 1300 miles this season? Well, we do have all of May but we'll see how the snow holds up versus melts. Stay tuned...