Kids

Paying attention and catching air along a fast groomed trail this morning!

Wheeee a groomie zoomie trail!

What did I mean by "paying attention" above? Well, Rudy was in a goofy mood at home this morning, walking around wooing for no apparent reason. Nancy and I immediately commented, "I wonder if this goofiness is going to carry over onto the trails?" Like we had to ask...

"Play with me! Play with me!" Rudy suggests to Jack.

Did Jack take the bait and fall for it? Ha, you bet. Play is contagious when you are three years old :) How contagious? Well, the silly kids broke out into a tag, tackle and wrestle session twice on the trail this morning. Here we are in incident number two:

Yes, Jack has Rudy's arm in his mouth.
Yes, Rudy LOVES it :)

When I was able to get the silly kids upright and paying attention, we had a wonderful skijor on beautiful groomed trails this morning. We started on perfect wide trails as you see in the first photo. We then transitioned to a stretch of narrow trails that is groomed by a skinny, mini groomer:

Zipping along laying first tracks in the skinny mini groomer track!

Come along for the video counterpart of the prior photo. Jack & Rudy galloping away as they tow me along the mini groomer track. Super fun stretch of trail!

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We then transitioned onto Gold Run Nordic Center and found ourselves being first tracks on this wonderful wide trail:

Catching air again. First tracks on the groomie zoomie!

Back to the trailhead to report the kids silly play antics to Zorro.

"I didn't teach them that!" declares Zorro.
Right, Zorro, I have plenty of video/photo evidence of you 
doing the same with Max over the years :)
"We are just giddy goofy!" adds the silly kids.

Goofy Rudy baiting Jack into the same this morning with some excellent skijoring in between: 8.3 miles traveled with 450 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 23 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 111 days on the trails covering 907.5 miles with 77,950 feet of elevation climbed.