WNWNW

 Jack & Rudy flying along the trail this morning. Zoom!

Zoom, zoom, zoom!

The three of us have put together a new combination of trails this year around Sally Barber Mine. In all of Max & Zorro's skijoring years, we would combine Sally Barber with French Gulch to get a nice 7-10 mile skijor outing. But, French Gulch is now a plowed road to houses and no longer a cross country ski trail. The Sally Barber Mine Trail, on the other hand, is a wonderful trail but too short to skijor just that trail. So, Jack, Rudy & I have put together a pattern linking the wide (Sally Barber) and narrow (Trail of Tears) trails into a fun set of laps.

We start on the fast & wide Sally Barber Mine Trail:

Lap 1 on Sally Barber - hover huskies!

We then loop back through the forest along the narrow Trail of Tears:

Just wide enough to glide along should-to-shoulder.

We then make a second lap on the fast & wide Sally Barber Mine Trail:

Switched sides, same result: hover huskies :)

Then another lap back through the forest. At times this trail is often only 1 Siberian wide:

Following Jack on the narrow single track.

Finally, it's back to the fast & wide Sally Barber Mine Trail. Come along and watch part of the last lap on the fast & wide trail. You'll note a few small rises in the trail that Jack & Rudy launch me over. If your volume is turned up, you'll hear me saying "Whee or Woo or Whoa!" as I whoop over the rises :)

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Fun day as Jack & Rudy now have a new skijor route incorporating Sally Barber Mine that Zorro only did parts of a few times in his skijor career!

"The kids did something new? Wow!" says impressed Zorro.
"We did, we did - we can make routes too!" declares proud Jack & Rudy.

Our second time skijoring this new Wide/Narrow/Wide/Narrow/Wide (WNWNW) pattern of trails: 8.1 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 68 days on the trails covering 546.0 miles with 47,800 feet of elevation climbed.