Boreas Again

Celebrating another fun dog sled run up & down Boreas Pass with end of run treats!!!

"Yum, yum - hand them out!!!!" says my super focused partners :)

There is still not enough snow for skis; but were able to return to Boreas Pass again this morning with the dog sled. Temperatures yesterday never got above 22 F and the day was cloudy with occasional snow showers. So, Boreas remained frozen and a bit of new snow was added to the trail. Yesterday we sledded to the summit and were shocked to see how wind blown and bare the trail was. So, today we decided to stay below treeline in hopes of a little better trail coverage.

The result? Some really nice stretches of "enough snow for me to ride the sled" behind Jack & Rudy!

Cruising Jack & Rudy's speed - whee!
Notice the nice footprints behind Jack. I put one runner of the sled in
this nice terrain behind him and had both feet on that runner to glide along.

But, as we go to lower elevations of Boreas, the cover was very thin! Frozen enough for Jack & Rudy to pull the sled but too thin for me to be on the sled too. I have an additional gangline attached from my waist to the sled. When the cover is this thin, I have to get off the sled and jog/run along. But, this means the entire team is limited by my speed. Slow human!

Cruising my speed - merely a trot for Jack & Rudy :)
Nice shot of Breckenridge Ski Resort across the valley.

I didn't mention it yesterday, but Jack kept his lifelong streak going then and into today. He has rolled at least on snow angel on EVERY skijor/sled outing of his life. He's now at 644 straight snow angel outings. He so LOVES to roll in the snow!

"Haha, hehe, love snow angels!" demonstrates goofy Jack.

Rudy? Well, he often rolls snow angels too but today he decided it was woo time at our turnaround point instead of snow angel time. Always wooing Rudy!

"Woo! You expected me to say something else?" woos Rudy.

Another short & fun dog sed run on Boreas as we wait for the snow to collect for real skijor outings... 5.5 miles traveled with 200 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 15 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 2 days on the trails covering 10.9 miles with 800 feet of elevation climbed.