All Conditions

We had a blast skijoring the full range of conditions in French Gulch this morning.

Flying along the trail with just enough powder for me to ride the middle under control. Zoom!

We left young Rudy out of today's skijor so the big boys (Zorro & Jack) could get a long fun run. Success as we skijored 9.3 miles in the full range of possible conditions...

It was fast packed and wide in lower French Gulch. Almost too packed:

Flying in the lower gulch - almost too packed as my ability to stop was sketchy!

It was perfect in the middle of French Gulch as there was middle and side powder for safety control. Come along an watch as I am riding the middle powder behind Zorro & Jack. Zorro takes the fast packed track the whole way and Jack flirts in/out of the side powder. He likes being in shallow powder more than a hard packed trail :)

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It was a packed but narrow single track in upper French Gulch:

Barely wide enough to jog shoulder-to-shoulder. Beautiful terrain in upper French Gulch.

There was one questionable patch in upper French Gulch as the trail crossed over the partially exposed French Creek. I asked everyone to wait while I got over the creek. Did I say wait?

"You did, you did - you said 'wait' so I'm rolling angels!" demonstrates silly Jack.
"It's just a momentary pause you goof!" states Zorro patiently waiting for me to get over the creek.

Finally, it was "no set trail" at the top of French Gulch. Time to break trail:

"Powering through the deep snow - wheeee!" demonstrate the sled dogs.

We only had a short section of breaking trail, so we were able to get a 9.3 mile outing on the full range of conditions in lower, mid and upper French Gulch. Fun time, right guys?

"Yes - a blast!!!!" exclaim the happy pair pausing to look back at me when I stopped briefly
to check our time out on the trails.

A bit of everything on today's fun: 9.3 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 27 days on the trails covering 143.2 miles with 12,900 feet of elevation climbed.