Easter Freshies

A beautiful & snowy Easter morning to lay fresh tracks all outing long!!!

Wonderful trail of fresh, untouched snow in front of us.
We had this treat all morning long!

While the prior photo showcases the great "fresh tracks terrain", it does not capture the other great feature of this morning's outing. What's better than laying fresh tracks? Well, how about laying fresh tracks with moderate to heavy snow falling all around you?!?!

Nice shot using the trees in front of us to show the active snowfall.
If you look closely, you can see snowflakes against Jack & Rudy's bodies too.
Snowflakes on the goofy flakes :)

Zoom in a little more and you can really see the flakes on the kids!

Beautiful shot of snowflakes against Jack & Rudy's black & red fur.
Still a great trail of untouched new snow in front of us!

Those are nice still shots; but they still do not do justice to the morning's active snowfall. So, come along for a video treat. Watch as we are cruising along, laying fresh tracks, with moderate snowfall coming down all around us. What a mid-April snow treat!

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If Jack & Rudy look a bit slower than usual in the video, consider two things. First, it was warm yesterday and the trail under the snow did not refreeze before it started snowing. Second, the fresh snow was actually a somewhat heavy & wet Spring snow. So, soft trail + heavy snow = slowing Jack & Rudy to 20 MPH instead of their usual 23-26 :)

Towing the human through these conditions means you really appreciate rolling your snow angels to cool off at our turnaround point!

"Ah, cooling the jets!" demonstrates the silly, but hard working, sled dogs.

Back to the trailhead with retired mentor Zorro. Let's use Zorro to showcase the snowflakes this time :)

Fun flakes visible against Zorro's black fur as I prepare to hand
out the 'end of run' treats!

A very aerobic "fresh tracks" Easter outing: 8.4 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 137 days on the trails covering 1163.3 miles with 108,400 feet of elevation climbed.