Baldy Shade

Zipping along in a 1/2 inch or so of new snow on the Sallie Barber Mine Trail this morning.

Off we go to start the outing - wheeee!

Despite being out well after sunrise this morning, we spent almost the entire outing in the shade of Baldy Mountain (which houses the Sallie Barber Mine) with the rising sun still behind the mountain. As a result, we have a lot of "low light" photos from today's fun outing.

As is typical with Jack & Rudy on our Sallie Barber outings, we start with a steep climb to the historic mine and then pause to roll snow angels to cool off before restarting again. Silly kids.

"Rub a dub dub, cooling our jets!' goes the snow rolling sillies with
Sallie Barber Mine in the background.

We made 3 passes by the mine this morning to put together a 9 mile skijor. On the final pass, the sun was almost above the shade of Baldy Mountain, but not quite yet...

The sun has risen over Baldy to light up the mine but not high enough
to light up the trail yet.

Come along for the video counterpart to the prior photo. The clip starts as we have just crested on the trail at the mine. Watch as we zip on by the mine with ok lighting but then immediately are back in low light from the shade of Baldy Mountain as we floor it down the other side of the mine. Wheeee!

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Then, onto one of our favorite open straightaways to floor it on this network of trails and Jack & Rudy decided to "pack it in tight" and become a single, conjoined skijoring machine :)

The fused together while running fast fun kids.

Finally, back to the trailhead and apparently I was being too slow getting the end of run treats bag open:

"You need some help there?" says Jack offering to open the bag :)
"Yeah, what's the hold up?" asks curious Rudy.

A fun morning making three passes by the Sallie Barber Mine to put together a 9.2 mile outing with 1000 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 69 days on the trails covering 585.4 miles with 57,100 feet of elevation climbed.