Dive

Cruising by the ruins of an old 1800s mining cabin in the ghost town of Preston.

Fun trail, cool old mining ruins to our left.

I was mentioning to Nancy the other day that it has been a while since Rudy has done one of his patented rodent dives on a skijor outing. Over the first few years of young Rudy's life, he's become known for his beautiful and high arching rodent swan dives (see the "rodent dive" tag for all of Rudy's past dives :)

Well, today Rudy reinforced that he is still the rodent dive expert as he produced one of his beautiful dives:

Pretty Rudy doing a high arching rodent dive off trail.

There was only one problem with today's rodent dive. The form was perfect, but the target of the dive was Jack, not a rodent!!!! Silly Rudy, Jack may be smaller than you, but he's not a rodent!

The target of Rudy's rodent dive: Jack in the snow off trail!
"I'm no rodent kid!" states Jack!

Oh that silly Rudy!

Outside of a misdirected rodent dive, we had a zooming fast day whipping around wide & narrow groomed trails in and near Gold Run Nordic Center. Wheeee!

Catching air on the groomie zoomie!
Good thing Rudy is so big so that you can see him behind Jack's
big bushy tail :)

Come along for a fun combo video from the outing. The video clip starts with us zooming along a wide groomie zoomie trail. Then, partway through the clip, I switch to Jack & Rudy zooming along a narrow groomie zoomie trail. Wide trail, narrow trail - same result: Zoom!

[watch on youtube if no video loads below]

Another wonderful day to report back to retired mentor Zorro as we get ready for 'end of run' treats:

"Glad you are back! How about those treats now?" says focused Zorro.
"Zorro first and then US!" adds wonderfully patient Jack & Rudy.

Great trails this morning a return of rodent diving Rudy (even if the target of his dive was a little misdirected :) - 9.2 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 23 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 91 days on the trails covering 756.1 miles with 71,200 feet of elevation climbed.