More Breaking Trail

Look who was having the BEST time out on the trails this morning!

"We are having a BLAST!!!!" exclaims the super happy Jack & Rudy.

What were we all so excited about? Well, like yesterday, we found ourselves breaking trail in a ton of fresh, untouched snow in the backcountry! Today's outing found us skijoring Prospect Hill and we found at least 15 inches of fresh, untouched snow at our deepest points of the outing. 

Jack & Rudy were having a great time blasting through the deep snow:

Near our highest & deepest snow of the outing. POW, POW, Powder Blasting!

Along the way we get great views of Breckenridge Ski Resort across the valley from us:

Still blasting through deep snow as the ski runs of Breckenridge Ski Resort are
in view across the valley.

As with yesterday, the reward for breaking trail all the way up & out is that you get to run in the tracks you set on the way back down. Jack & Rudy really understand how to reuse a track you spent a lot of effort creating :)

Running in our "out tracks" on the way back with another nice view of
Breckenridge Ski Resort across the valley from us.

As I also mentioned yesterday, with snow this deep, the return is still a lot of work even though we are running in the tracks we set on the way out. Come along and watch how Jack & Rudy operate in these conditions. It is: zoom, catch your breath, then zoom again. It was this way all the way back from the fun kids: zoom, breath, zoom, repeat, repeat, repeat..... :)

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Funny story about our daily "end of run treats": yesterday I FORGOT to bring our usual end of run pork treats. We improvised as Nancy had a bag of normal dog treats in her pocket and I handed those out. While these "normal treats" were accepted by Jack & Rudy, it was NOT the special pork they are used to getting. Well, today I remembered the correct treats but Jack had to check on the forgetful human!

"Just making sure you have the RIGHT treats! Airhead!" says treat inspecting Jack.
"I trust you!" adds trustful Rudy :)

Another great day breaking trail in deep, deep snow: 6.9 miles traveled with 1000 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 19 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 107 days on the trails covering 912.5 miles with 88,800 feet of elevation climbed.