Pest

Beautiful backcountry trail to lay fresh tracks this morning!

Beautiful trail, beautiful sled dogs! Zoom!

When we were getting ready this morning, Rudy was acting like a loco nut. Ok, well, Rudy is always a loco nut; but this morning he was on nut overdrive. As he was bouncing around the house, I said to Jack & Nancy, "I wonder how much of this is going to spill onto the trails?" Nancy laughed, Jack rolled his eyes. The answer was, "It's RUDY, it's all going to spill onto the trail!" :) We had a least 4 pauses on the trail (all within the first 1-2 miles) to get Rudy to stop pestering Jack and me! What a pest!!!

What would make you want to stop trotting to suddenly rodent dive
onto your brother? Oh Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!

After about the 4th pause to deal with the pest, I was thinking, "Maybe I should flip the kid upside down and bite him! That'd teach him!" Well, Jack read my mind and did a flip and bite of his own. Good boy Jack!

"Stop bothering us!" says Jack atop Rudy.
"Yay, Jack flipped me! Whee!" responds loco Rudy.

Apparently all Rudy wanted was to be flipped and gnawed on for a bit as he stopped bothering Jack & I for the rest of the outing after Jack's flip. What a weirdo.

Anyway, Jack & my plan was to skijor the backcountry around Dry Gulch and then eventually drop onto the fast trails of Gold Run Nordic Center to end the day. Gold Run just recently opened for the season, so I was not sure they would be grooming the upper elevation trails yet; but they had!!! When we first dropped onto the trails, you could see signs a groomer had run yesterday and then there was 2-3 inches of fresh snow atop the groomed trail. Fresh tracks fun!

Wheeee! Laying fresh tracks over a groomed trail.
Oh, and look, Rudy is participating!!! :)

Finally, as we got to our last stretch of trail, the groomer had just come by minutes before us (I heard it from the trail we were on). Oh boy, a groomed sprint track to finish the outing. Zoom!

Zoom, zoom, zoom!

What did Jack & Rudy think of the groomed sprint track? Ha, ZOOM is their favorite word. Come along for a video glimpse of the fun as we topped 23 MPH skijoring along this stretch of trail.

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Finally, arriving at the trailhead behind my happy, happy pals. You wouldn't know Rudy started the day as a super pest from this cute & mellow glide to the finish :)

Whee!

Fun in the backcountry, fun in the groomed country and a little red pest to deal with along the way: 9.4 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 23 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 33 days on the trails covering 267.1 miles with 23,200 feet of elevation climbed.