A chronology of my skijoring adventures in & around Breckenridge CO with my 2 Siberian Huskies.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Steep Fun
The "Power Trio" driving to the finish at the Dry Lake Trailhead.
It was a steep and complex day - anybody tired? Nope - just ME!
Zorro got to teach young Jack & Rudy about the fun starting a skijor from Dry Lake this morning. This trailhead is the starting point for Steamboat Powdercats: a touring company that takes people to deep backcountry terrain by snowcat. We always get on the trail head of the cats and then have fun watching them pass and then chasing them up the trail.
We stepped off the trail to let a cat pass us and here comes Jack & Rudy.
"Hey - that machine is cool - let's follow!" declare the pair hopping back on trail to chase.
Where is Zorro in the prior photo? Well, he knows to let the cat completely pass and wait for my release. Ok, all safe, here we go:
"Boing! Here I come - let's catch the cat!" demonstrates Zorro launching himself on trail
to join Jack & Rudy to play chase the cat.
Do we catch the cat? Well, no. The reason: steep elevation! If we are on flat, downhill or shallow uphill terrain we can keep pace and even pass a snowcat. But, the goal of this powdercat tour is to get people up quickly to high elevation powder. As a result, we have fun chasing the cat up steep terrain but cannot keep pace. How steep? Well today's outing was 6 miles with 900 feet of elevation climbed. The outing was an "out & back" so that means we went up 900 feet in 3 miles before turning around and catapulting the human back down.
Quick break at our high, turnaround point:
"Wow, we started way down there and are now way up here?!?!" say young Jack & Rudy.
"Just stick with me kids, I've got so much more to show you!" adds veteran Zorro.
Turnaround and ZOOM we go downhill...
Nice views from our high point. Wheeee!
Come along for today's video highlight as my power trio is propelling me downhill fast. The terrain was choppy and hard packed. My knees feel the result of being catapulted down steep terrain for 3 straight miles :)
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