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Fun day in the backcountry, right guys?

"You bet! Fun, fun, fun!!!!" declares the happy. happy kids.

We have had a lot of very welcome snow the past few days. Enough snow that backcountry trails are getting narrower and narrower the further away you get from civilization! 

Jack & Rudy have no problem breaking trail (as I've shown many times in the past). But, no reason to over exert yourself in deep powder if there is a set track to ride instead. But, today's set tracks were often very narrow and deep. Too narrow to fit side-by-side and too deep outside of the track for one guy to ride "in" with the other "out". No problem, just time for single file skijoring when necessary :)

Cruising along in the narrow single track with VERY deep snow outside
of the track!

Occasionally, though, the set tracks widened to be "Two Siberians Wide". Whenever that happened, Jack & Rudy pulled shoulder to shoulder and off we went! Wheeeee!

Just wide enough for both kids to fit side by side!

Our fun skijor clip from this morning is on a set trail barely two siberian huskies wide. Come along as Rudy & Jack squeeze to fit in the trail side by side to go fast. Notice powder Jack drifts in/out of the shoulder powder for fun; but always squeezes back into the set track in order to keep pace with "in track Rudy". Fun guys. Wheeee!

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Then, once we got near civilization, the set trail really widened. As a result, the last mile of our outing was on fast, wide and packed trails. Zoom!

Wide, packed and fast. Zoom!

Back to tell Zorro all about our backcountry fun this morning!

"Yep, been there, done that! Did the kids do ok?" asks mentor Zorro.
"Haha, hehe, we had a blast!" declares the giggle twins joining in the treat party.

A very peaceful day deep in the backcountry on narrow trails: 8.2 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 19 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 44 days on the trails covering 346.5 miles with 33,000 feet of elevation climbed.