Powder Face

Silly Zorro rolling snow angels, burying his head in powder and thoroughly covering his face with snow!

"Ahhhh, Powder Face!!!" demonstrates silly snow rolling Zorro.

You must be thinking it was a warm day for Zorro to roll such an extreme snow angel. Well... It was around 6 degrees (F) at the trailhead and under 10 degrees our entire outing. "Warm" is clearly a subjective word :)

The highlight of the morning: there is finally enough snow on the Sally Barber Trail to skijor!!! This is one of Zorro's favorite trails and we had a great time skijoring up, over and down this trail.

Flying along behind sprinting Z - wheeee!

While the Sally Barber Trail is very fun, it is too short for a full outing. So, we always try to connect an out & back on French Gulch after we skijor Sally Barber. The only issue with this plan: well, French Gulch gets plowed occasionally (there are a handful of private cabins in the gulch)! Unfortunately the trail had been plowed recently; but fortunately there was just enough new snow cover to skijor cautiously.

Zipping along behind Zorro on very thin snow cover. Note the snow wall to our left - this is
the wall created by the evil plow and is the snowpack that should be ON the trail :(

Back to the best part of the day's outing. Come along and watch and Zorro and I uncork the skijoring engine along the Sally Barber Mine Trail. Such fun...

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Done skijoring both Sally Barber and French Gulch and back to the trailhead to meet up with little Jack:

"Smack! Thanks for coming back!!!!" says cute little Jack giving Zorro a 'welcome back' peck
on the cheek :)

Great day on Sally Barber and a cautiously skiable day on French Gulch: 8.3 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH.

2017/2018 Season to Date: 10 days on the trails covering 70.8 miles with 6600 feet of elevation climbed.

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