Entertaining

A very entertaining outing skijoring French Gulch this morning.

We had serious speed with a light layer of snow over the packed trail. Here's a cool shot of flying Zorro, hovering Rudy and powder Jack. Zoom...

Zoom, zoom, zooooom we go!

While the conditions were perfect for a fast day, there is only one thing can can pull Zorro and Jack to a stop on the trails - scent of moose!!! Rudy is still perfecting his "moose sensors" but Zorro & Jack both have very accurate moose sensors. Jack's moose sensor didn't develop into this level of accuracy until he was over 2 years old; so we expect Rudy's to become refined very soon too :)

"We DETECT moose to the right!" declares the moose aware Zorro & Jack.
"Sniff, sniff - that does smell wonderful! How did you both notice it before me?" asks young
Rudy catching a whiff of moose after stopping to see why his brothers drifted right.

Then, sure enough, just around the corner from the previous photo and FRESH moose tracks!!!

"Oh these are FRESH!" declares the track inspecting trio.
You can barely make out one moose print to the left of Rudy and then a set going
right of Zorro.

Despite the freshness of the tracks and the intensity of Zorro & Jack's stare into the trees, we failed to see a moose. But, I did hear cracking branches and then splashing water as it was clearly moving away from us and into French Creek.

No moose sighting, so back to perfect conditions, whee!

Wide angle shot showing the speed demons in front and my ski tips in the back. Hang on!

Todays fun video clip: Fly, Control and then Go. Come along as we are flying along the French Gulch Trail when we come around a corner and encounter two people and a loose dog coming up the trail. Watch as I use all my leg strength to push into my skis to get the trio under control so that we can safely pass on by. Sometimes I really do have to do some of the work :)

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Of course, we had the usual once it was time to turnaround and head back:

"I'm still searching for moose!" declares forest inspecting Zorro.
"Stopped, rolling!" demonstrates goofy Jack.
"Stopped, dunking!' adds head dunking Rudy.

Finally, the end of a very entertaining day on the trails and time for end of run treats. Oh Rudy, you have the attention span of a 1 year old :)

"Ready for treats!" declares the mature Zorro & Jack.
"Hi Mom? Wait, what treats?" adds no attention Rudy :)

A great day with the sled dog trio on the trails: 5.4 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 10 days on the trails covering 57.1 miles with 5750 feet of elevation climbed.