Wicked Fast

Smiles all around as Jack & Rudy tow me to the finish of this morning's fast skijor outing.

"Whee - we had a BLAST today!" says the happy kids arriving at the trailhead.

The day started in a modest jog along somewhat tracked up backcountry trails:

My perfect partners keeping the speeds down to preserve the human
on backcountry trails.

Then we dropped onto the trails at Gold Run Nordic Center and all ZOOM broke out! We were thrilled to find we were first tracks on the upper nordic loop trail. Jack & Rudy were simply pedal to the metal all around this loop!

Perfect fresh groom to ZOOOOOOM!!!!!

As we were flying around this upper loop, all I kept thinking was, "Wow, we are going wicked fast today!" as I was working the skis to stay upright with flooring it Jack & Rudy. The GPS registered our top speed at 24 MPH today; but I was totally expecting one of our 26 or 27 MPH speed bursts. Oh well, it certainly felt wicked fast - come along and watch today's video highlight to see for yourself:

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We ended up doing two passes around this upper nordic loop. First pass we were first tracks on the fresh groom and second pass we were second tracks (to ourselves) on the fresh groom. At the top of the loop on our second pass, I paused to check our time out on the trails. Well, I paused...

"Stop, drop and ROLL!" goes snow rolling Jack cooling his wicked fast jets
in the side powder.
"WOOOO, let's GOOOO!" belts wooing Rudy.

After two passes on the upper loop, it was time to continue onto the main nordic trail taking us back to the trailhead. We typically encountered lots of other oncoming skiers along this trail. Jack & Rudy like to fly on by the skiers and put smiles on their faces and generate expression of "Wow!'

"Coming through - made you smile!" says Jack & Rudy flooring it
on by the oncoming skiers.

Back to the trailhead and look at this wonderful snow shelf the kids found on a snow wall to receive their end of run treats:

Nice shelf to get my pals chest level with me for easy handing out
of the end of run treats.

I still cannot get "wicked fast" out of my mind, the kids were flooring it today: 9.8 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 118 days on the trails covering 1014.5 miles with 99,300 feet of elevation climbed.