Views

It was a day of absolutely stunning views from high elevation and freshly groomed nordic trails!

Flying by the Kathy's Viewpoint Warming Hut with a beautiful
snow covered mountain peak in the distance.

We were first or second tracks on the freshly groomed trails all morning and every direction we turned had really beautiful mountain views!

Jack catching some serious air as we zoom along the groomie zoomie
trail. Rudy is airborne too; but Jack's got some serious lift in this shot.
Oh, and more views of the snow capped Rocky Mountains all around us.

Even when we were second tracks on the trail, all we had to do was move to one side to be first tracks on our side of the trail. Here are the fun kids catching some serious air again as we fly by the Hallelujah Warming Hut with more mountain peaks in the background.

Whee - one skier came up the trail to our left before us, so we'll just
stay right and lay first tracks over here :)

Here we go with yet another cool mountain view shot with Jack & Rudy once again catching some air. You get the idea, it was a fast & fun outing this morning!

The zipping kids with more mountains to take in.

Now for today's video highlight. I love this stretch of trail as do Jack & Rudy. We are near our highest point of elevation of the day in this clip. While we start out amongst some dense trees, watch as the trees thin after about 20 seconds into the clip and then it is marvelous 360 degree views for the rest of the clip. Oh and notice how fast Jack & Rudy are flying today - top speed was 24 MPH.

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Now for our daily "turnaround time entertainment". We know Jack ALWAYS rolls snow angels at turnaround points. Rudy is the wildcard - it's either rolling snow angels or belting out woos. Well, today Rudy decided to put them together. He first rolled a snow angel (along with Jack) and then flashed me a smile and followed with a beautiful woo from his snow angel down. Talented kid :)

"It's ALWAYS stop, drop and roll for me!" declares snow rolling Jack.
"Stop, drop, roll and WOO! I've got a new combination antic!!!!" introduces
rolling then wooing Rudy. Wonder if he can woo while rolling? It would not
surprise me in the least if he came up with that combination at some point.

Back to the trailhead and we found a really nice snow wall to climb for end of run treats. Such talented kids!

"Love climbing snow walls for treats!" says the happy, happy kids.

What a glorious day on perfect conditions with stunning views: 10.6 miles traveled with 1100 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 37 days on the trails covering 308.0 miles with 29,500 feet of elevation climbed.