Wow

We made it all the way to "Upper French Gulch" today while still keeping within our 30 minute limit for young Rudy's skijors. Wow!!!!

"I say we keep going!" declares Rudy focused on the narrow trail ahead.
"I'm game to keep going too!" adds all business Zorro.
"Huh? What trail? We stopped, I roll!!!" demonstrates goofy Jack.

I had said recently that we would not make it to Upper French Gulch with Rudy until he was allowed to skijor longer than 30 minutes. Well, today the monster sled dog trio proved me wrong. I was shocked to get into the upper terrain with them while staying within Rudy's 30 minute limit. These 3 are developing into quite the skijoring machine this winter! Upper French Gulch is either a narrow single track (as you see above) or untouched and you are breaking trail in deep snow. We only skijored about 10 yards on the narrow upper trail; but, still, making it this far was impressive.

The lower and middle sections of French Gulch are always wide, fast and typically packed. Zoom:

Flying along the fast packed middle of the gulch.

For today's video fun. Come along and see what the lower & mid sections of the gulch look like. Partway through the video you'll see one of the private cabins in the gulch and the source of the shallow snow cover on the trail (i.e., the evil person occasionally plows the gulch). This trail is a very rough and rocky dirt road in the summer and, with such shallow snow cover, you get to see me bouncing around on rough terrain behind my sprinting partners. A workout for me to stay in control and upright!

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End of the day's run and we are in the French Gulch parking lot with extremely thin snow cover. Jack & Rudy have learned from Zorro's guidance to go slow on thin cover or you might break the human (and then no more skijoring). Good Boys!

"Keep it slow and we can keep going!" says Zorro setting a safe jog pace for the
youngsters to follow.

End of run means end of run pork treats! Yum!

"Tasty!" says Zorro taking a pork slice from me.
"Our turn!!!" say focused Jack & Rudy.
Love the youngsters on the high snow pile to get eye to eye with me :)

A ridiculously fast run out & back in French Gulch: 5.6 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 54 days on the trails covering 294.2 miles with 26,200 feet of elevation climbed.