Last Nordic Groom

Fun shot from the front of the happy sled dogs arriving at the end of this morning's run.

"Wheeee - we had a BLAST this morning!" says the happy trio.

This morning was the last time the trails at Breckenridge Nordic Center will be groomed this season. This is the last nordic center still open in Colorado (and maybe all of the country), so today was our last day on groomed nordic trails this season. We may still be able to find the occasional groomed snowmobile trail, but we should assume this may be our last groomie zoomie this year.

We got to the nordic center trails just after 9am as they typically are finished grooming by that time. It was perfect to start as the trail was groomed from the trailhead. But, partway up the trail we came to a fork in the road with one direction groomed and the other not. The fork is actually a loop, so we knew the groomer was still out there, so we took the ungroomed direction to go find the groomer. Success:

"Yay - it's the groomer!" says happy Zorro.
"Cool!" says nosey Rudy.
"We are going to go FAST after this!!!" adds happy Jack.

We gave the groomer a 15 minute head start (as we are faster than a groomer on flat or downhill terrain) and then turned around. After this we had the newly groomed trail all to ourselves. Wheeee!

First tracks on the freshly groomed trail!

If you look closely above you can see quite a bit of slush coming on Zorro, Jack and Rudy's feet. It was a warm morning and the trail was very soft in the open. But, once we got into the trees, the shade made for a little firmer trail. Come along and watch as we have a great time flying along our last nordic groom of the season.

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Always fun to put smiles on people's faces as we fly by on the trails:

"Hi... Bye!" says the cruising trio.

It was warm and we had to turnaround at some point. Warm plus stop equals goofy kids:

"They are at it again!" says happy Zorro flirting with me at our turnaround point.
"We stop, we roll!" declare the goofy youngsters rolling snow angels to cool off.

A great day for our last nordic groom of the season: 6.8 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 101 days on the trails covering 574.4 miles with 52,900 feet of elevation climbed.