Authorizations

Beautiful views, beautiful bluebird morning, beautiful fresh groomed trail, beautiful sled dogs - that about sums up today's great skijor outing :)

Cannonball Jack next to Rudy the Missile as we fly along the freshly
groomed nordic trail with great views in front of us and to our right.

Jack & Rudy covered all ranges of authorizations (or lack thereof) on today's outing. Let me show you what I mean.

First, we had unauthorized play bowing and wrestling on the trail:

Double play bows from the sillies about to launch into a wrestling
match on the trail. Unauthorized!!!

Second, we had authorized but not encouraged diving for rodents off trail under the snow. The rodent dives are always fun to watch, thus authorized. But, I say "not encouraged" because if I did encourage this behavior, Jack & Rudy would spend all day off trail digging for rodents and we'd never skijor :)

"Dunk! I sense rodents under the snow!" declares dunking Jack.
"Really? Well, then, INCOMING!" joins Rudy with one of his patented
high arching rodent dives. Authorized but not Encouraged!

Third, we had authorized hover huskies catching some serious air while topping 24 MPH skijoring on the freshly groomed nordic trail. 

Whee! Look how high off the trail the speed demons are! Zoom!
Authorized and ENCOURAGED!!!!

Today's video highlight goes along with the prior photo. Come along as we are skijoring at around 12,000 feet in elevation on a freshly groomed nordic trail topping 24 MPH behind wonderful Jack & Rudy on a gorgeous bluebird morning. It doesn't get any better than this!!!!

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The only slight letdown of the day's perfect outing? Well, not much of a snow wall to climb for end of run treats at the trailhead. There was one good wall, but the car parked next to it had an obnoxious dog barking nonstop inside of it - not fun to be right next to such a loud and annoying creature. So, we settle for what little wall we could find:

Rudy on a little bit of a perch but only Jack's rear end was able to fit
on any sort of incline. Oh well, we still very much enjoy end of run
treats at ground level :)

All authorizations exercised by the comedians today as we covered 9.6 miles with 1100 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2024/2025 Season to Date: 29 days on the trails covering 224.9 miles with 21,600 feet of elevation climbed.