Late April Powder Day

Look who was enjoying this morning's Late April Powder Day!

"Yay for new snow! We are having a BLAST!" says the happily snow covered
kids at a momentary pause on the trail this morning.

Yes, that's right, it was a wonderful powder day in late April! We found ourselves laying fresh tracks in 5-10 inches of new snow all morning long (5 inches at our lowest elevations and 10 at our highest). Even though the snow was a bit on the wet/heavy side, Jack & Rudy were excited to go snow plowing all day long:

Laying fresh tracks in a beautiful layer of fresh snow!

I love riding behind these two and watching them blast through deep powder. So impressive:

Powder blasting - wheeee!

Typically in April, I like to do "out & back" outings so I see on the obstacles on the "out leg" that I need to avoid on the "back leg". This works great when the out leg is mostly up and the back mostly down. But, with the amount of new snow we had this morning, I decided to do a loop with the kids so we were able to lay fresh tracks almost the entire outing in rolling up & down terrain. The end of the outing repeated one short section to get back to the trailhead, thus, fresh tracks almost the entire outing. Along the way, my fun pals decided to switch positions for a little while. Switched positions, same results :)

POW again as we now have Jack on the left and Rudy on the right.

I've put today's video highlight in slow motion as I love watching these two blast through powder in slowmo. Come along and watch for yourselves. Such impressive powder plows!

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You know what else deep, fresh snow is good for? Well, rolling snow angels with some extra gusto to cause the powder to fly up around you. Just ask Jack & Rudy, this is the best way to roll angels :)

"Rolling with extra gusto to make powder fly up around and on us!" demonstrates
the snow rolling funnies.

What a late April snow treat, right guys?

"Oh, that was FUN! We love fresh snow!" exclaims the happy & focused
kids awaiting end of run treats.

What a fun powder day, especially for this late in April: 7.4 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 138 days on the trails covering 1179.9 miles with 117,100 feet of elevation climbed.