Caution, Go

Cruising by the historic Sallie Barber Mine on this wonderful, snowy March morning!

Zooming on by the old mine.

We start today's blog with a great video clip showing Jack & Rudy's "understanding of the trail". We are at the beginning of our skijor on the Sallie Barber Mine Trail and we have to pass through a narrow gate opening before really starting the run. Come along and watch as Jack & Rudy understand the human on skis needs to get through this narrow gate opening BEFORE we all can start running hard. This takes a lot of composure from the great kids as they so want to RUN at the start of every outing, but understand they need to get me through the opening first. :) Oh, nice active snowfall in this clip too!

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This morning's skijor was what has become our usual at Sallie Barber Mine this season. We skijor up the frontside, down the backside, up the backside and finally down the frontside. With a shallow layer of fresh snow, we were able to safely open the skijoring throttle on all sides of the mine.

It was zooming on the backside:

Whee!

It was zooming on the frontside:

Zoom!

It was zooming by the mine as shown in the first photo. But, with two passes by the mine, Jack & Rudy took a chance to do one of their comedy skits on one pass. Today's skit was "woos and angels" :)

"WOOOOOO!" booms Rudy who REALLY wanted to be heard today :)
"Rolling!!!" goes Jack rolling snow angels in the background.

While the video above showed great composure and trail understanding, we have more talent from Jack for end of run treats. Jack is known for his adorable "swooshing tail" that is always going/wagging when he's happy. So, check out this talent:

Sitting, focusing, smiling AND swooshing your tail at the same time!
Talented!!!!

Fun, quick run as we watch the snow fall for more fun tomorrow: 7.4 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 115 days on the trails covering 1019.2 miles with 92,500 feet of elevation climbed.