Nice Up High

Laying fresh tracks in 3+ inches of untouched snow on April 24th. Nice!!!

Fresh tracks for Jack & Rudy with untouched snow in
front of us and great views to our right.

Today's outing took us on a tour around Peak 7. These are very popular trails near the trailheads, so I was very happy to have a light layer of new snow atop heavily used trails. Just enough new snow to let Jack & Rudy open the throttle on what would have been slick and dangerous trails yesterday!

Not nearly as pretty trail conditions as the prior photo when
we were near the trailhead. But, still enough fresh snow to
open it up.

But, having Jack & Rudy to tow me along, we are able to quickly out ski the heavily used trails near the trailheads. To our great surprise, though, we found that NOBODY had made it very far from the trailhead. We had fresh snow all to ourselves for about 1/2 the outing!

More fresh tracks and stunning views. Wheeee!

Come along for today's fun video of Jack & Rudy laying fresh tracks in 3+ inches of snow. Then, about 20 seconds into the clip and they almost get drawn off trail by what must have been very fresh fox tracks crossing the trail. But, they quickly regain focus and continue forward. Who wants to chase a silly fox when you can skijor instead?!? Good boys!

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Turnaround time and look at mature Rudy! What a grownup three year old! Jack, well Jack is the snow angel king, so no surprise here :)

"Hi Dad! Jack sure is a silly boy!" exclaims happy Rudy.
"Stop, drop and roll - that's my motto!" demonstrates silly Jack.

Back to the trailhead and such focus from my favorite retired gentleman, Zorro. Nice attention from Jack & Rudy too :)

"You have my FULL attention!" declares Zorro.
"Mine too! What a fun day!" adds smiling Rudy.
"Down in front! I had a blast too!" adds partially eclipsed
(but smiling too) Jack.

A pleasantly surprising "fresh tracks" outing for most of the morning on Peak 7: 9.2 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 145 days on the trails covering 1182.2 miles with 101,400 feet of elevation climbed.