POW to Groom

Jack & Rudy blasting through upwards of 2 feet of fresh powder!

POW, POW, powder blasting!

We started this morning's skijor in roughly 2 feet of fresh snow in the backcountry. We ended this morning's skijor being first tracks on a freshly groomed nordic trail. What a tale of two trails :)

Catching as we are first tracks on the freshly groomed nordic trail.

If you start in deep backcountry snow and end on groomed nordic trails, then you had to transition from one the next at some point, right? Well, come along for today's video fun showing just that transition. The video starts with Jack & Rudy blasting through 2 feet of powder. Then, we blast through one last stretch of powder and land on a freshly groomed nordic trail. Once on the groom, Jack & Rudy know what to do - groomie zoomie! What's more impressive the powder plowing or the groomie zoomies? Hard to choose one :)

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At one point along the nordic trail, Jack got distracted by rodents off trail under the deep snow. Jack is known more for his "rodent lunges" than "rodent dives"; but if the snow wall is high enough, he's perfectly capable of rodent swan dives himself.

"Rodents off trail under the snow! Incoming!" goes rodent diving Jack.
"Whoa, what? Where, where?" says Rudy noticing what Jack is up to.

Not to be outdone, here comes the diving professional. Rudy and his beautiful, fox-like high arching rodent swan dives!

Now that is some impressive swan diving form!!!!

Today's outing was shorter than our usual skijors. Why? Well, first we were slowed by deep, deep powder; but no complaints here, powder plowing is fun. Second, though, is that the intense winds are back. We finally had a break from the recent monster winds yesterday but they came back today! So, the wimpy human (me), cut the outing short to hide from the winds.

Skijoring into a super strong wind gust of blowing snow. Brrrr!

Powder to groomies, what an entertaining day, right guys?

"We loved it ALL!" says the happy, happy kids.

Another wind shortened skijor outing (the theme of a lot of the last week) but still fun had by all: 5.4 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 62 days on the trails covering 520.9 miles with 50,500 feet of elevation climbed.