We spent the majority of this morning breaking trail in 6-8 inches of fresh powder!
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| Blasting through about 6 inches at this point on the trail. Wheeee! |
At our deepest points, though, we found ourselves blasting through over 12 inches of fresh powder!
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| Jack & Rudy snorkeling through over 12 inches of pow, pow, POWDER! |
Of course a day of breaking trail is quite a workout. That means everyone thoroughly enjoyed rolling snow angels to cool off whenever we paused to catch our breaths!
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| "Rub a dub dub, cool our jets rolling in the snow!" goes the silly kids. |
As I said above, we spent most, but not all, of the day breaking trail. What happened to change that? Well, we ran into the groomer from Gold Run Nordic Center coming up the trail as we were on the last mile or so of our outing:
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| Hey, the groomer! Hi friend!!!! |
We all knew what we would get on the other side of the groomer. Yep, a fresh groomie zoomie to floor it for the final leg of our skijor outing!
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| Flooring it on the groomie zoomie. |
Now let's put the prior two photos together into a fun video summary. Come along as we start the clip breaking trail in 6-8 inches of fresh powder. Then, as we round a bend in the trail, we come upon the groomer coming up the trail. We know the groomer drivers from years of skijoring these trails. The drivers always stop and let Jack, Rudy and I pass on by - I'm convinced they love running into us and watching us maneuver on by as they always have big smiles on their faces. Back to the video, once I see the groomer stop (thus knowing he is one of the past groomers), I instruct Jack & Rudy to move on by the stopped groomer. Finally, once past, we all know what to do on the fresh groomed trail - floor it on the groomie zoomie! What fun partners, wheeee!
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Back to the trailhead and, oh boy, our tallest snow wall of the season to climb for end of run treats!!!!
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| Love it when the kids find a wall to climb and get face to face with me. What fun pals! |
A very aerobic trail breaking outing for most of the day and then a fresh groom to floor it for the final home stretch: 7.8 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH (on the groomie zoomie, of course).
2023/2024 Season to Date: 29 days on the trails covering 236.4 miles with 22,600 feet of elevation climbed.
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