Powder Day

A beautiful bluebird morning to enjoy a ton of fresh mid-April powder!

"So fun, so fun!" declares happy Jack.
"Fun indeed, but I smell moose!" adds Rudy sniffing the air
(we were in known moose territory :)

It was a pow, pow, POWDER day for the kids and I as we abandoned set trails to enjoy 8-10 inches of fresh snow over vast, untouched meadows!

The pow, pow, POWDER kids propelling me through 8+ inches of untouched
snow as far as the eye could see!!!!

As you can tell from the prior photo, the snow was a bit too deep for 11-3/4 year old Zorro to come along for much of the outing. How did we satisfy our need to run with the fun elder? Well, after plowing across the meadow above, we looped back around the perimeter of the meadow to get back to where we started. In the meantime, Zorro & Nancy walked out our initial tracks until meeting up with us back atop this vast meadow. We then hooked up with Zorro to get a mini run with the fun guy letting him use the track we set on the way out.

"Whee, thanks for setting a track for me little brothers!" says happy Zorro trotting in track.
"MY PLEASURE!!!! Anything else I can do for you?!?" asks cute Rudy.
"You two take the set track, I'll keep POWDER plowing!" demonstrates
powder Jack continuing to make his own track in the deep snow.

Above was a view from the front of the team. Here we are "on by" Nancy and a view from the rear with an additional cool view of Breckenridge Ski Resort across the valley. Pretty cool that you can see all the snow covered ski runs whereas the tops of the mountains are still blanketed in the clouds leftover from last night's snowfall.

Zorro & Rudy continuing to use the track we set out with Powder Jack
continuing to blaze his own. Cool view of the ski resort too!

After a short sprint with Zorro in our set tracks, we handed him back off with Nancy and the powder kids and I went out for some more. I'm not sure what is more cool: (1) The second photo above of us blazing our own trail in the vast untouched snow; or (2) The photo below of us returning to the same vast meadow as we continue to blaze our own trail while you see our trail from the first pass to our right!

The powder kids still going as you see our "first pass" tracks to the right.
Note that the skinny/bare tree in front and above Jack is the same tree
to the front & right of Jack in the second photo above.

Hmm, both powder plowing shots are so cool. How about a side by side to enjoy them both?

Powder plowing pass 1 on the left.
Powder plowing pass 2 on the right with our pass 1 tracks to the far right.

Today's video is, of course, the powder plowing kids. Come along for a fun view of the energetic and aerobic kids towing me through 8+ inches of perfect powder!

[watch on youtube if no video loads below]

An incredible powder plowing outing in mid-April for the kids with a mini addition of Zorro in between powder runs: 6.7 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH. As has been the case the last few days - our top speed was HAPPILY slowed by deep powder!

2019/2020 Season to Date: 147 days on the trails covering 1008.2 miles with 91,600 feet of elevation climbed.