Beautiful Morning

 Happy kids towing me to the finish on this morning's beautiful skijor outing.

Smiles all around - we had a GREAT time today!

It was a gorgeous bluebird morning to go play in the new snow that fell all day yesterday. We started the outing in the backcountry laying fresh tracks in a wonderful layer of fresh & untouched snow!

Kicking up powder as we lay fresh tracks in the backcountry!

Now come along for the video counterpart to the prior photo. What a beautiful bluebird morning and what a beautiful trail of untouched & fresh snow! Wheeee!

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After some fun in the backcountry freshies, it was time to drop onto the groomed trails at Gold Run Nordic Center. We were THRILLED to find ourselves being first tracks in the freshly groomed upper elevation loop!

Fresh groomie all to ourselves!!!

We had so much fun being first tracks on the upper loop that we did it a second time. As is usually the case with Jack & Rudy, they will switch sides if we redo trail or loop. Apparently it is different from each side :)

Roughly the same location as the prior photo on our second pass.
The kids have switched sides to get a different perspective on pass #2!

After we finished the second loop, we then transitioned onto the main trail to take us back to the trailhead, But, first, Rudy got very distracted by rodents under the snow off trail. His high arching fox-like rodent dives are so beautiful!!!

Nice lift Rudy! Wow!
Jack has just noticed what Rudy was doing and he swung back to lunge
off trail with his brother to search for rodents.

Once the search for rodents was over, it was time to open up the throttle again and sprint to the finish. We were no longer first tracks on the main trail; but only a few others had been on the recent groom before us.

Catching air as we start the sprint to the finish.

Finally, what a wonderfully high snow wall the kids found to climb for end of run treats!

"Hi Dad - we are as tall as you!!!" says the happy kids.

What a beautiful morning: 9.7 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 94 days on the trails covering 794.3 miles with 76,500 feet of elevation climbed.