Second Tracks

Merry Christmas from me in my Santa Hat and Zorro, Jack & Rudy doing their best reindeer imitation towing me on the trails this morning!

"Merry Christmas!" say the happy trio as we end the morning's fun run.

We decided to skijor Gold Run Nordic Center for a Christmas treat. The trails had been freshly groomed this morning and we were the second tracks on the groomed track. Who was first tracks? A MOOSE!!!!!

Those are two-toed moose tracks to our left going down the groomed trail. Guess the moose
wanted a fast groomed day too!
"Fresh, fresh - let's go!" demonstrates Zorro kicking it up a notch and setting the lead to
go find the moose!

Did we find the moose? No, but we did find EXACTLY where it left the groomed trail to saunter off into the deep snow and trees:

"These tracks are VERY fresh!" declare Jack & Rudy submerging themselves in the moose
track trough.
"I know, I know... Scanning, scanning - where are you?!?!?!" says intense Zorro.

Outside of the fun moose tracks, we were first tracks on the groomie zoomie most of the day.

Wheeee we go as we have flying Zorro in the middle and hovering Jack & Rudy on
each side of him.

A Christmas treat for all: a rare "from the front" video of the whole team (me included :)  Most of our video footage is from the GoPro on my chest to you get the sled dogs from behind. But, every once in a while Nancy is able to capture a fun arrival video of the whole team. Often one (or all) of them slow or veer towards Nancy, but today we get a fun arrival video as we all gallop on by.

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Merry Christmas to you and your family from the three happiest sled dogs around:

"Merry Christmas!" declare the happy trio at the end of our day's outing.

A fast & fun "Rudy scale" Christmas run: 3.8 miles traveled with 250 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 24 days on the trails covering 126.3 miles with 11,250 feet of elevation climbed.