Sun

Cool shot of Jack & Rudy hovering over the trail as the morning sun has just risen over the mountain in front of us:

Pretty sled dogs, beautiful snowmobile trail, awesome sunrise. Trifecta :)

We started today's outing on some pretty thin snow cover with the goal of climbing quickly to (hopefully) better snow cover. As you see in the photo above, success! The conditions were incredible once we got up a bit in elevation. We found some fairly fresh (so not icy) snowmobile tracks to follow for miles and miles! I stopped once to assess our location and determine our path to continue. Well, I stopped, so:

"You stopped, we roll! Hehehe!" demonstrates silly Jack.
"Come on, you KNOW you want to join us!" Rudy is telling me.
The day I "stop, drop & roll" a snow angel too is the day everyone
should really worry about me :)

Location assessed, time to restart. Zoom:

The fast flying skijor team! Wheeee!

Nice photos of fast Jack & Rudy, huh? Come along for an impressive video counterpart:

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I stopped a second time to send Nancy a text to change our pickup point to meet up with her and Zorro. Since the goofballs had already rolled snow angels at the previous stop, it was time to search for rodents during the second stop. Jack was convinced there were rodents to be had, Rudy did a quick dunk and declared the mission should be aborted:

"Where are the rodents?" asks buried Jack.
"False alarm, coming back to skijor instead!" says happy Rudy plowing
back onto the trail to restart.

Sometimes the lighting isn't be best, but we have to have our "photo with elder Zorro" in every blog:

"Front & center!" says focused Zorro.

Great day following endless snowmobile tracks once we got up high enough in elevation: 7.1 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 40 days on the trails covering 311.9 miles with 28,800 feet of elevation climbed.