Dumping

It was dumping and blowing snow on us all morning long! Yay for Snow!!!!!

How much? Just come along and see :)

Look at thoroughly snow covered Rudy!!!!
Jack is covered too but his big white tail is blocking most of his snow covered back.

A lot of fun things to notice in the prior photo. First, snow covered Rudy as I mentioned in the caption. Jack & Rudy will regularly shake to clear snow that has collected on their head and backs. But, it was snowing so hard that it would recollect within 5-10 minutes! Second, you can see quite a few big flakes about to hit the camera in the photo. Finally, the "haze" you see going up the trail in front of us is actually actively falling snow. What a great snow day!

Here we are starting out this morning's outing. Again, the "haze" is actively falling snowfall. So fun to skijor in near blizzard conditions :)

Off we go to enjoy skijoring in active snow!

Still shots can never do justice to just how hard it is snowing (and blowing). So, come along for a video glimpse into the start of this morning's outing. You'll see very heavy snow falling around us and the occasional gust of wind blowing snow. Yay for Snow!

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Jack & Rudy get quite frisky during blizzards they so enjoy the active snow. Here we are on our first pass by the historic Sallie Barber Mine. I paused momentarily to see if the kids wanted to roll snow angels as they typically do at the mine. But, they wanted to play and roll together in the wonderful new snow this morning. Funny kids.

"Aahhh, let's roll around together!!!" says the frisky kids.

We went up the front side of the Sallie Barber Mine Trail, then down and back up the back side of the trail before finally going down the front side. It was snowing the entire outing; but it started to lighten a little on our final leg down the front side of the trail.

Not snowing as hard (compare the image of the mine with the prior photo)
but sill snowing. You cannot even tell we skijored by the mine just 20 or so
minutes ago as so much new snow had collected in that time!

Here we come on the final leg down the front side and you can barely tell we had laid fresh tracks up this trail only 20-30 minutes prior!

Blasting through newly accumulated powder from our first pass
by this stretch of trail. Wheeee!

Time for end of run treats at the trailhead and Rudy won today's "king of the mountain" competition :)

No, Rudy is not THAT much taller than Jack, he just found a higher point
on the snow wall to perch himself!

What a wonderful romp in fresh and actively falling snow this morning! 7.6 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 93 days on the trails covering 784.6 miles with 75,600 feet of elevation climbed.