Here's Rudy

Look who came along this morning for his first ever skijor hookup...

RUDY!!!!!

Jack then Rudy then Zorro running 3x3 in Rudy's first ever hookup! 

It has been cold and snowing on/off all week. Recall that Zorro, Jack and I did our first skijor outing of the 2018/2019 season high up on Boreas Pass on Tuesday. Well, we decided to see if enough snow had collected on the same terrain to hookup little Rudy for his first outing. Success!!!

Rudy is still young and this was his first time. So, we made it as easy as possible. We drove up Boreas and then Nancy took the Jeep back down so we could do almost all downhill for his first run. Also, we kept the outing very short and took 4 breaks to celebrate our fun during the small outing.

After a somewhat shaky start, it all started to click for the young guy and we got into a real groove!

Fun shot of "Jack in powder", "Rudy in packed powder" and "Zorro on packed tracks" as you
see my skis snowplowing in the powder too. Boy do I have long legs all of a sudden :0

We came across one really nice stretch of good conditions. I let everyone know we could "open it up" and Zorro quickly put himself in the middle of the crowd. I was so happy to see veteran Zorro take control of the puppy brigade when the conditions allowed speed!

"Puppy on each shoulder, follow my lead!" declares Zorro.

I had to take the skis off 2 times to walk over bad terrain. Here's one instance where we are paused while I put my skis back on - guess what Jack did at all pauses....

"Ah, rub a dub dub!" demonstrates silly snow angel Jack.
"What are you doing over there silly bro?" asks inquisitive Rudy.
"Children... Look at all this good terrain ahead and we are paused!" declares Zorro.

Back to the Jeep - did everyone have a good time?

"YES!!!! I'm a big boy!" declares supper happy Rudy.
"Love snow, love snow!" declares happy Jack.
"I see potential..." states Zorro.

A great first training run introducing Rudy to skijoring: 1.6 miles traveled with lots of breaks to talk about how much fun we were having!

2018/2019 Season to Date: 2 days on the trails covering 8.8 miles with 1050 feet of elevation climbed.