Wow

Laying fresh tracks on an early morning sunrise skijor.

Fresh tracks for Jack & Rudy.
Cool orange tinted sunrise clouds.

We had some appointments to make this morning so only had time for a quick & early skijor. How early? Well, we started pretty much exactly at sunrise.

As has been the fun pattern for over the last week, we had a light snow overnight so as to find ourselves laying fresh tracks in the morning's new snow. We should have a few more days of the "daily fresh tracks" before this nice pattern of daily snow dries up.

Come along for the video counterpart of the prior photo: laying fresh tracks in Dry Gulch. Wheeee!

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We did an "out & back" on one side trail in Dry Gulch. Well, this meant we had to stop and turnaround. Today's turnaround comedy was Jack tickling snow rolling Rudy :)

"Tickle, tickle!" goes Jack.
"Hehe, haha, that tickles!" laughs Rudy :)

We have been skijoring around and on the trails of Gold Run Nordic Center frequently in this week of daily snow. As a result, we have been laying fresh tracks near the nordic center and then finding ourselves first tracks on the daily groomed nordic trails. Well, the groomer tends to go out around 9am most days (give or take 30ish minutes). So, with a sunrise start this morning, there was no chance of a first tracks counterpart to our fresh tracks start. Or, so we thought...

Well, WOW, to our surprise the groomer went out at sunrise this morning too! It's as if the groomer knew we were going to be out early and wanted to preserve our "fresh tracks to first tracks" streak!

Whoa, first tracks on freshly groomed trails despite a sunrise start! Wow!

Fun thing to notice in the prior photo. Look at Rudy's ears: left ear tucked for aerodynamics but right ear up. Typically Rudy has both ears tucked when we are going really fast as he is quite the aerodynamic pro. But, in the prior photo we are skijoring in well populated moose territory. I'm convinced Rudy's "outside ear" is up as he is listening for moose as we traverse this established moose territory. No reason to keep the inside ear up to listen for moose so might as well tuck that one in for partial aerodynamics :) Funny kid.

Back to the trailhead to report yet another "fresh tracks to first tracks" surprise this morning!

Amazing day, now let's get to those end of run treats!

Quick sunrise skijor: 4.3 miles traveled with a top speed of 22 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 117 days on the trails covering 954.2 miles with 80,700 feet of elevation climbed.