24 MPH

Topping 24 MPH as we were first tracks on the freshly groomed trails at Breckenridge Nordic Center. Zoom!

Fast kids flying along the fresh groomie zoomie!

As I've been mentioning in recent posts, we do not have the best late November snowpack; but we have been making use of the few places where the snow has collected and is pretty protected from afternoon sun. The upper elevation trails at Breckenridge Nordic Center are one such group of trails. To our surprise and delight, we were first on the trails this morning after they had just finished grooming. A fresh groomie zoomie all to ourselves! Wow! You know what that means... Yep, our top speed of this early 2021/2022 season this morning: 24 MPH!

The groomed trails, though, only account for about 5 miles of skijoring. Jack & Rudy laugh at such short runs :) As a result, we spent some time off the groomie zoomie and touring around the slightly used side trails. 

Not groomed here, but we are still zooming :)

Come along for a peek into what skiing behind 24 MPH sled dogs looks like! You'll notice you see quite a bit of my waist hook and carabiner hooking to the gangline. When you see this much of my equipment, you know I am in a serious skiing tuck to keep pace. You'll also notice me swinging out wide right & left as we approach tight curves in the trail. I need to sweep out and back into corner at 24 MPH; unlike Jack & Rudy who take each such curve tight & fast! Hang on Human! Wheeee!

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The kids ground to a halt at one point to inspect moose tracks crossing the trail. My original thought was, "Oh no, we are NOT following moose tracks on the trail until we run into a big body around some blind corner!" Luckily, the moose crossed and exited pretty quickly back into the trees!

"Oh fresh, moose entered here!" says Jack on the side of the trail.
"Yep, and crossed here!" adds track inspecting Rudy.

With a fresh groomed trail, Jack & Rudy were flying around today. That leads to serious snow angels to cool the jets whenever the human pauses.

I paused to check our time out on the trails.
"Paused time, roll around time!" declares silly Jack & Rudy.

Finally, our usual "end of run fun" with retired mentor Zorro.

"Yep, those look like the right end of run treats!" declares Zorro.
"Remember me over here!" says Jack peeking around my shoulder.
"Bring them on!" adds happy Rudy waiting his turn.

A wonderfully fast run today being first tracks on a groomie zoomie: 8.6 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 19 days on the trails covering 147.2 miles with 14,100 feet of elevation climbed.