Powder Day

It was a wonderful POW, POW, Powder Day in fresh snow on untouched trails in the backcountry this morning!

Jack & Rudy blasting through upwards of 7 inches of fresh snow
as they tow me along.

While the ski resort reported only 5 inches of fresh snow, we found MUCH, MUCH more in the backcountry on the mountains across the valley from the resort. Clearly our side of the valley won in last night's snowfall! We started in upwards of 7 inches of powder as you saw above. But, then we climbed up and out into the backcountry. The further (and higher) we went, the deeper it got! Near our high point we found ourselves in a stretch of upwards of 15 inches of untouched, fresh powder. WooHoo!

Jack & Rudy now blasting through upwards of 15 inches of powder! POW!

Now let's put the last two photos together as a video highlight. I love watching Jack & Rudy in slow motion in deep powder as you can really get a feel for their powder plowing power at this speed. Come along for two back to back slow motion powder highlights from the outing. In the first half Jack & Rudy are blasting through upwards of 7 inches of powder while the second half features them blasting through upwards of 15 inches of powder. Impressive kids!

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Along the way we got rodent diving entertainment from the two comedians. It doesn't matter how deep the snow is, they can sense those pesky rodents under the snow. We were cruising along at a gentle pace when all rodent broke out to Rudy's left...

"RODENTS to the left! Incoming!" goes beautiful rodent diving Rudy.
"What? Really? Here I come!" adds Jack noticing Rudy's antics.
The real trail goes up from Jack in this photo so this was quite a far
dive off trail for rodent detecting Rudy!

Rodent dives are, of course, contagious - just ask Jack!

Jack's dives are not as high arching as Rudy's but they are still
very effective :)

Despite some very pretty dives and lots of digging in the snow, nobody came up with a rodent in their mouth. Phew :)

Our outing today was an "out & back" as we wanted to reuse the trail we worked so hard to set on the way out to go a little faster on the way back. But, with such wonderful deep snow, it was still a very aerobic ride back in our outgoing tracks!

Really cool shot of the ski runs of Breckenridge Ski Resort across the
valley from us. As you can see from all the powder coming up around
Jack & Rudy, running in our out track was still very aerobic this morning!

Great powder day, right guys!

"We loved it and we'll accept end of run treats since we failed to bag
any rodents!" states the proud & happy kids.

A fun day slowed by deep snow but with smiles on all of our faces all outing long: 7.2 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 18 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 85 days on the trails covering 713.0 miles with 68,600 feet of elevation climbed.