Single Track

The comedians, Jack & Rudy, rolling snow angels in a deep snowmobile track we found to follow for miles and miles into the backcountry.

"Rub a dub dub!" goes the snow rolling sillies.

That snowmobile track in the prior photo looks wonderful, right? Well, it was indeed. When we could, Jack & Rudy got side by side in this track and ran, ran, ran :)

Whee! Making use of a wonderful snowmobile track.

But, this snowmobile track was not too fresh as we found lots of places where the track had been wind blown and got very narrow and choppy. In fact, we spent the majority of this morning's outing in single file skijoring as the track was not wide enough to fit Jack & Rudy and stepping out of the center of the track was too deep, soft and choppy for either to run in and keep pace. Not a problem, Jack & Rudy are very experienced at running in narrow single tracks and taking turns who runs in lead:

Too narrow to fit side by side and too soft/choppy to run out of the narrow
track. No problem, single file skijoring. 

Along the way, Rudy got quite distracted by rodents under the snow off trail. Incoming!

"Rodent dive! Incoming!" goes high arching, fox-like Rudy.
"What's going on back there?" asks Jack glancing back to see what Rudy
is up to.

Jack didn't participate in the rodent dive and Rudy hopped back on trail quickly. I guess the rodents were not too active under the snow. Or, was Jack saving himself? Saving for what, you ask...

"Big Moose went this way!" declares Jack & Rudy hopping off trail to inspect
a very deep trough of moose tracks. Moose sure are tall!

Rodent dives, moose troughs (we actually came across 4 different moose track troughs) and a lot of single file skijoring, what an interesting day!

"Yes, and we had a BLAST!" says the happy kids climbing a snow wall
for end of run treats.

8.1 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a modest top speed of 17 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 27 days on the trails covering 218.2 miles with 21,000 feet of elevation climbed.