A Moose Encounter on the trails this morning! Eek!
A moose crossing the trail. Max & Zorro want it! Silly boys! |
What happens when Max & Zorro see a moose while skijoring? Well, watch today's fun video to see. Notice the snow spotted camera and snow dumping all around us. But, pay most attention to the following: 5s into the video Zorro notices the "fresh moose tracks" on across the trail. 6-7s into the video, Max & Zorro see the moose and launch off trail to the right. 9s in and you see the moose walking away! 15s in and I let Max & Zorro tow me back towards the moose as I wanted to make sure it was not circling back to us! Turn the volume up high and you'll hear a little of Max's "moose scream" - it is very loud but the waterproof case on the GoPro is sound suppressing. After we established the moose was not coming back, she decided to cross the trail and that is the photo above.
[watch on youtube if no video loads below]
After letting the moose wander off into the trees, we cautiously approached where she wandered off into the trees. Once established the moose was long gone, I let Max & Zorro follow the tracks for a few steps. I love the following photo of Zorro:
Camera blurred again as you can see all the active snow against Zorro and the trees. |
The secondary highlight of today's outing: we surpassed 1200 miles of skijoring for the season - woo hoo! But, this milestone was completely overshadowed by the moose encounter! 9.1 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.
2016/2017 Season to Date: 143 days on the trails covering 1200.8 miles with 127,900 feet of elevation climbed.
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