Breaking Trail

Young Rudy's first skijor breaking trail for extended distances! POW!

The "skijor snowplow" breaking trail in about 8 inches of fresh powder.
What powder trucks!!!!

What did we do today? Well, we were breaking trail in 4-10 inches of fresh snow the ENTIRE outing! 4.2 miles of breaking trail. Young Jack has had 2-3 outings with extended trail breaking and Zorro, of course, has had probably a 100 or more trail breaking outings; but this was baby Rudy's first skijor with extended trail breaking. In fact, we were breaking trail the entire day. Fun!

How did Rudy do? Well look at the photo above and the one below - he had a blast and ran on pace with Zorro & Jack the entire outing. Nice job Rudy!

Powering through powder as we lean into a hard right on the trail.

Come along and watch the impressive trail breaking trio plow through a section of trail with 8+ inches of snow. POW!

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And then there is Jack, our team goofball, at every break on the trail :)

"Breaking trail is work, gotta roll angels to cool my jets!" demonstrates goofy Jack.
"I hope nobody sees this - embarrassing!!!" says Zorro checking to make sure nobody is
coming to see our pack goofball :)
"You are a strange bro!" adds cute Rudy.

Breaking trail all morning long - everyone having a good time?

"Wheeee I'm the trail breaking lead!" says happy Jack (he is our lead trail breaker on extended
uphill climbs).
"Whew - what a fun day!" adds happy Zorro.
"Look at all the snowballs from being in deep snow on my buff buns!" adds happy Rudy.

Second day in a row that we were happily kept under 5 miles due to deep snow (deep snow now means good snowpack through May): 4.2 miles of breaking trail with 350 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 64 days on the trails covering 345.5 miles with 30,950 feet of elevation climbed.