Track Follow

Fun shot from the front as the happy kids tow me to the finish of this morning's skijor outing!

Smiles all around from the fun sled dogs (I'm sure I was smiling too,
you just can't tell :)

We started this morning's skijor on the Walton Peak Trail at Rabbit Ears Pass. My original plan was for us to skijor out & back on this wide, frequently used trail. But, a little ways into the outing and I got the vibe from Jack & Rudy that they wanted to go exploring. After a super fun day on new trails yesterday, the kids wanted another day of new explorations. The Walton Peak Trail did not offer this as we have skijored this trail a lot over the years. So, what to do? Well, we came upon a solo snowmobile track leaving the main trail and going off into the distance. I directed Jack & Rudy left onto this track and off we went!

We just turned off trail onto this solo snowmobile track.
Look at the ears & heads up as the kids were very excited to abandon set
trails and go exploring!

This snowmobile track went on for miles and miles, taking us places we've never been before. Jack & Rudy were in a real groove going exploring! Come along for today's video highlight showing us galloping along a "trail to who knows where" :)

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Eventually I had to turn us around as I had no idea where this snowmobile track was going to lead us. No problem for Jack & Rudy, they just swapped positions and we continued galloping back the way we came. Fun kids.

On the return. What a fun path less traveled.

Once we got back to the main trail, it was time to roll snow angels and cool off from physical and mental explorations :)

"That was fun, but we've got to 'stop, drop & roll' now!" declares the
snow rolling sillies.

Of course we had to use the main trail to get back to the trailhead as I had no idea where that snowmobiler was going. After miles of off trail exploration, the kids welcomed the main trail to zoom back to the trailhead.

"Thanks for the exploring dad, now we'll floor it back!" goes the fast
running fun kids.

Finally, you guessed it, the kids climbing a snow wall for end of run treats as has become their new game to end almost every outing. 

"Just making it easy for you to hand them out!" declares the polite pair
coming up to my level for end of run treats.

A very exploratory outing: 9.6 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 120 days on the trails covering 1064.4 miles with 97,100 feet of elevation climbed.