Below Freezing

I think Jack & Rudy had a great time skijoring this morning, how about you?

You don't get two faces much happier than this!

We returned to Rabbit Ears Pass this morning for a short and fun skijor. This was our third day in a row skijoring on terrain near the top of the pass. The primary difference between today and the last two days was that temperatures were below freezing instead of being in the low 40s (F).

With temps below freezing, we were able to abandon set trails and make our own path for most of the outing:

Abandoning set trails to skijor atop the perfect spring crust. Wheeee!

But, the downside of the cool temps is that snowmobile tracks on the set trails were frozen and slick. It is a lot of work on my legs to keep the skis from getting caught in a frozen snowmobile track. If it happens, I suddenly have no ability to stop! So, I when we had to use set trails to get from one point to another, I tried to ski the shoulder as much as possible.

Perfect shoulder for us to skijor the right side of this set trail and stay out of frozen snowmobile tracks!

The shoulder was not always as nice and wide as the prior photo. Come along for a video view into me battling the frozen snowmobile tracks until we finally round a corner and the shoulder gets wide again. Phew, that's a lot of work on the human's legs! But also very nice of Jack & Rudy to keep the speeds to a minimum when they hear my skis battling the conditions!

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With temperatures back below freezing, what did Jack & Rudy make of that? Well, surprise, same as every outing!

"We roll to cool our jets at EVERY temperature!" declares the snow rolling goofballs.

Fun day, time for 'end of run treats'...

You have our full attention!

A short fun run this morning: 7.2 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 148 days on the trails covering 1209.6 miles with 103,500 feet of elevation climbed.