Loud

Another fun day running the trails along with the dog sled teams from Good Times Adventures!

"Love getting out with all my distant cousins!" says happy Zorro.
"Yes, these trails are FUN!" adds happy Jack.

We had quite a few fun encounters with the dog sled teams today. Come along for the ride...

We all paused to let a team cross the trail in front of us:

"Hi friends! Can we come?" ask happy Jack & Zorro.
You can see the sled and 6 of the 8 dogs on the team in front of us (the tree is blocking
2 of them)

We once again executed a perfect "on by" when encountering a team stopped on the trail. Young Jack is now 3 for 3 in executing textbook "on by's" - such a good boy and such good leadership from Zorro.

Coming through...

Today's video clip shows the perfect "on by". Come along as in the beginning of the video you can see a team drop from a side trail to our left onto the main trail we are running. Next we come around a corner and find the team paused and I get my pals under control for a perfect "on by". Then, just as we get ahead of the stopped team they all "object" - if your volume is up you can hear the protests from the stopped dogs as we go by :)  Zorro simply gives a passing glance back to all the chatter and then continues on. Jack gets a little distracted by all this loud chatter and glances back and takes a moment to compose himself before connecting back up with Zorro to keep on going. Pretty good composure around such a loud crowd :)

[watch on youtube if no video loads below]

We were on a collision course from a side trail to a team on the main trail, so I stopped us to let them go by:

"Let's go!" says bucking Zorro.
"Yes, come on!" adds intense Jack.
My skis were sideways and using all my strength to stay stopped!

And, finally, playing chase on the trails behind a running team:

Look straight in front of Jack and you see a tree in the distance. The black dot to the left of
the tree is a musher with an 8 dog team. We all could see the musher & team even though
this photo doesn't. Flying along as we play chase!

Fun on the trails with another perfect "on by" from Jack with just a momentary distraction from the loud crowd we passed: 9.4 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 40 days on the trails covering 215.9 miles with 19,200 feet of elevation climbed.