Jack's Angels

Beautiful shot of the happy sled dog trio towing me to the end of a fun, fun skijor this morning!

It doesn't get much better than this on April 19th!!!!
Look at that happy, happy, happy power trio!

We did a 50/50 run this morning where Jack, Rudy and I did the first 50% and then Zorro joined in for the second 50% of the outing.

We got 2ish inches of fresh snow overnight and the kids and I found ourselves laying fresh tracks for our initial loop without Zorro:

Whee goes the power duo laying fresh tracks as I glide
along behind the strong team.

Now, on to the title of today's blog: Jack's Angels. Well, Jack, who has rolled at least 1 snow angel on every skijor of his young career, was on a snow rolling tear this morning! He rolled multiple snow angels at the trailhead before we got started.

We did a loop with a side tour "out & back" to add some distance before meeting up with Zorro. Well, here's the turnaround of the side tour "out & back" and there's Jack...

"Stop, drop and ROLL!" demonstrates goofball Jack.
"Yum, snowcones!" says head dunking and snow eating Rudy.

After completing our initial loop, we hooked elder Zorro in to the team to go some more. We started out on the loop we did with Jack & Rudy and then turned out of the loop about halfway through. After the turn, we found ourselves laying fresh tracks in the 2+ inches of fresh snow again:

The fresh tracks trio cruising along!
You can see the sides of the trail were quite bumpy whereas the set track down
the middle was smoother. So, of course, all three figured out how
to fit in the set track and open up the skijoring engine!

Along the way with Zorro and we did another side tour "out & back" for fun. Out & back? Yep, here's Jack :)

"Rub a dub dub!" showcases silly Jack.
"He's a GOOF!" says Zorro checking back with me.
"Hey, nice views!" notices Rudy (he's never noticed the
views from this trail before ;)

Come along for today's video highlight. You'll notice the camera, and thus, me bouncing around quite a bit. The trail was a bit choppy under the new snow from warm days and lots of foot traffic. But, the trail was perfectly smooth enough for Zorro, Jack & Rudy to go, go, go. So, I simply hung on for dear life as I bounced around behind them :)

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We were racing Nancy from the point we picked up Zorro to another trailhead a bit away from where we started. We beat her to the trailhead parking lot, so turned around to go back up the trail a bit while waiting for her. Well, you guessed it, Jack rolled yet another snow angel at this turnaround too ("A turnaround is a turnaround!" was Jack's goofy logic). So, yes, Jack rolled snow angels at FOUR different points of today's outing. What a goof ;)

Finally, Nancy got out to meet us and it was "Hi mom, bye mom!" from the trio:

"Hi mom, bye mom, we have things to do!" says the trio running
past Nancy.

What things did we have to do? Well, get to our 'end of run' treats of course!!!

"Ready for our well earned hunks of pork!" says the focused & happy trio!

A fun "fresh tracks 50/50 day" starting with the kids and then ending with the whole trio: 7.2 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.


2019/2020 Season to Date: 152 days on the trails covering 1039.1 miles with 94,500 feet of elevation climbed.