April Powder Day

A mid-April powder day on Baldy Mountain! Yay!

Nice shot of Jack & Rudy plowing through 10+ inches
of powder with some impressive snow troughs they
have carved behind them!

We have been waiting days for this predicted storm to finally arrive. Each morning we kept waking to only a trace to inch of new snow for days and saying, "Darn, the storm didn't arrive yet!" Well, it FINALLY arrived last night and into this morning as there was 9 inches of new snow mid-mountain with even more as you went higher. What to do with 9+ inches of fresh powder? Well, head out to Baldy Mountain, our favorite powder day set of trails. Oh boy did we have fun galloping through the deep snow!

Another impressive shot of powder plowing Jack & Rudy!

Come along and watch some "backcountry powder skijoring" as Jack & Rudy are flying along in the morning's new snow. What happens about 10 seconds into the clip when Jack & Rudy go out of sight from the camera? Well, I almost lost it and barely avoided a wipeout! Nice recovery by the human, though, as I ride through the "slip" but keep upright and then back in line with Jack & Rudy. Wheeee!

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If you are a sled dog, mid-April powder makes you frisky! If you are three years old, frisky makes you looney! Oh those silly kids.

"Tag! You're it!" announces Jack starting an unauthorized
game of tag & tackle on the trail.
"Coming back at ya!" responds 'never back down' Rudy :)

I reeled in the gangline to stop the tag & tackle episode. While reeling in I was saying something along the lines of "No, that's not skijoring, we don't do that on the trail!" I always get this response to such lectures:

"Who? Us? Don't know what you mean!" declares the innocent
acting troublemakers :)

You should have seen the wrestle twins Zorro, such kids!

"Children!" Zorro consoles me :)
"Who? Us? Don't know what you mean!" Jack & Rudy continue
to press their innocence.

A great mid-April powder day with silly kid entertainment along the way: 8.1 miles traveled with 1100 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 139 days on the trails covering 1135.8 miles with 95,900 feet of elevation climbed.