Dumping

For the third day in a row, Jack, Rudy and I found ourselves breaking trail in over a foot of fresh, new snow! Wheeee!

Look at that power as Jack & Rudy are blasting through almost 2 feet
of fresh powder at this point of the outing!

When you are skiing, snowboarding and/or snowmobiling in deep snow, it is often referred to as "snorkeling" as your head is often barely above (or below) the deep snow. Well, today we have a classic shot of Jack snorkeling as he & Rudy are breaking trail in snow about as deep as they are tall:

Love Jack's nose up in the air to keep above the "Jack deep" snow he is
blasting through. Snorkeling!!!

In addition to wonderful deep snow this morning, it was also actively DUMPING snow all outing long. The only drawback of active, heavy snowfall? Well, the camera continually collects snow and gets blurry. Both photos above are clear as I had just wiped the camera clear of snow. Most of today's footage looked like the following photo:

Jack & Rudy blurred by two things: 1) snow collecting on the camera; and
2) deep snow they are submerged in while blasting through!

How hard was is to keep the camera clear, well today's video highlight shows you. This clip starts with a blurry camera which I wipe clear after about 3 seconds. Then you get to see the beauty of Jack & Rudy romping through a foot of snow until less than 50 seconds later when the camera is blurred by snow again. Perfect day for Jack, Rudy & I; rough day for the camera :)

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I did wipe the camera clear at our turnaround point of the day and, well, the kids did their turnaround usual :)

"Stop, drop & ROLL in the wonderful deep snow!" goes the snow rolling sillies.

What a wonderful snow day, right guys?

"Oh that was FUN!" says my snow covered pals awaiting end of run
treats atop a tall snow wall.

An aerobic day of breaking trail in deep snow amidst active, heavy snowfall: 4.6 miles traveled with 300 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 17 MPH.

2024/2025 Season to Date: 57 days on the trails covering 426.8 miles with 40,600 feet of elevation climbed.