Home Start

A rare "home start" as we began (and ended) this morning's skijor from our garage!!!

The rare "home start" as you see our garage in the background as we
began and ended this morning's skijor from home!

Our typical outing consists of driving 10-15 minutes to the edge of town and then skijoring trails in the national forest. But, every once in a while we get the magical conditions to allow a start from home. The first condition is that it is snowing so hard that the town plows cannot keep pace with the snow. The second condition is that it is early morning (before 8am) so the town & streets are still pretty quiet. When these magical conditions occur, we can start and end our skijor straight from the garage!!!! We will skijor quiet side streets nearby home and venture onto the sidewalks of busier streets and tour around the town. Such a fun & unique skijor outing!

The one downside, though, is that the camera on my chest gets continually covered and blocked by the heavy falling snow. I try to wipe it clear frequently, but it gets covered, blurred and blocked within seconds of me wiping it clear. So, most of the footage from my camera looks like the following and typically much worse!

Snow covered camera with Zorro, Jack & Rudy barely visible. Within 2 seconds of this
frame and you could not see any of them!

Notice the person ahead of us in the prior clip. That is Nancy waiting for us as we completed a loop of side streets. Luckily, Nancy has a camera too and since she is standing still, it does not get buried by the heavy falling snow. So, here is the happy trio towing me in deep snow as we approach and go on by Nancy.

Such happy, happy sled dogs!

After doing "side street tours" with Zorro, we handed the fun elder off to Nancy and I continued on with Jack & Rudy to skijor more of the town. We ventured to the sidewalks of busier streets and eventually dropped down onto Breckenridge Main Street. It was snowing so hard that town plows could not even keep up with Main Street (they try really hard to keep the street and sidewalks of Main plowed as that is where all the tourists congregate). Come along for our first ever skijor on the sidewalks of Breckenridge Main Street!

Cruising Main Street. Wheeee!

I am pretty sure we became the highlight of many people's Breckenridge vacation. Every time I looked at a car on Main Street, there was at least one person with the window down videoing the crazy guy being towed around town by two sled dogs :)

Another fun clip of my pals taking me on a tour of Main Street.

Today's video highlight is a combination of two short video clips. The first is Zorro, Jack, Rudy & I skijoring side streets near home. As you'll see, it takes less than 10 seconds for the camera to become buried in snow. We then transition to Jack, Rudy & I touring Main Street until, once again, the camera is blurred by snow.

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Back home and time for the snow covered trio to get their 'end of run' treats from the snow covered musher :)

All four of us covered in snow with heavy flakes falling around us.

A truly unique skijor this morning on quiet side streets and sidewalks of busy streets: 5.2 miles traveled with 400 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 104 days on the trails covering 706.2 miles with 64,900 feet of elevation climbed.