Rain

Look at the following great skijor shot for June 7th.

But take note of the ominous sky too!

Beautiful stretch to open up the skijoring engine and top 20 MPH!

Nice shot of great snowpack and fast running sled dogs. Yet, look at that dark sky. In January/February I would have been thrilled by this sky as snow would be on the way. But, it is June, so that sky means RAIN!!!! Egad, RAIN!!!!

As the sky implies, our outing was cut short by rain. We waited for some early morning rain to move by before getting out on the trails. Then, we tried skijoring two different directions from the Harrison Creek Trailhead. Each time we eventually skijored into RAIN and had to turnaround! Ugh!

This morning is most likely our last run of the season atop Rabbit Ears Pass. You are probably wondering why given that beautiful first photo. Well, here is the counterpart to that photo as there is only a narrow "ribbon of death" of snow for my skis to cross!

"We can make it, we can make it!" says Rudy powering forward despite
the narrow ribbon of death for me.
"We should slow and save the human!" says smart veteran Zorro.
"Fast or slow, I'm torn!" adds 'in between' Jack :)

By tomorrow morning the ribbon in the prior photo will be gone. We hit 3 patches during the outing where there was not even a ribbon but all dirt & mud! Couple this photo with the fact that we can not return to Rabbit Ears for at least 4 days and you know why this is most likely our last run on Rabbit Ears this season.

Here is a rare "opposite of normal" shot for you - Zorro rolling snow angels at a turnaround point while the kids wait for him to get restarted :)

"Ha - Zorro does it too!!!!" says Rudy looking on.

Back to the fun patches that still existed this morning. Come along for a great stretch of skijoring. But also notice the deteriorating conditions we fly by about 35 seconds into the video. Despite having sun and shadows in this video, we got rained on just 3ish minutes past this stretch and had to turnaround!

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A rain shortened run with 'toes on snow' is better than anything else we could have done today, right guys?

"YES!!!! We still had a blast!" declares the happy trio.
(You cannot see Rudy's face, but he was beaming just like Zorro & Jack :)

A rain shortened last run atop Rabbit Ears Pass this season: 3.8 miles traveled with 300 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2018/2019 Season to Date: 131 days on the trails covering 767.6 miles with 71,100 feet of elevation climbed.