Crest and Go

Cresting on the trail to fly by the historic Sallie Barber Mine from the 1800s mining days in Breckenridge.

Jack & Rudy love to "crest and go" to fly by the historic mine.

It was a wonderful snowy morning to be out on the Sallie Barber Mine Trail. With fresh snow and existing snowpack, we were able to lay fresh tracks on the less popular (and much steeper and rockier) backside of this trail. Wheeee!

Laying fresh tracks on the backside of Sallie Barber Mine. What fun!

Notice anything special about the prior two photos? Well, it's really hard to see in still shots but it was actively snowing all through our outing this morning. If you look closely at the first photo, all the white speckles you see on the mine are snowflakes. If you look closely at the second photo, the white speckles on Jack and Rudy are also snowflakes. 

I know it's hard to appreciate active snowfall of "white on white" in a still photo. So, let's put it to a video. Come along as we crest at the historic mine and then take off down the other side. You can see the wonderful light to moderate snow falling around us in a video. Yay for Snow!

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We did our usual route at Sallie Barber: up the frontside, down & back up the backside and then down the frontside. On the first pass, the sillies almost always roll snow angels to celebrate reaching the mine after the initial climb. You need to cool off after a climb after all :)

Stop, drop and roll to cool off on the first pass by the mine.

You may have noticed that in most of my photos and video, Jack is on the right and Rudy on the left. This is their typical configuration. I don't enforce it, it is just what they prefer. But, occasionally they'll switch sides to mix it up (there is even one stretch of trail at Gold Run Nordic Center where they ALWAYS switch for some reason, you'll have to ask them why :) 

The infrequent "Jack on the left & Rudy on the right" with the same results: zoom!

A wonderful, snowy morning, right guys?

"We LOVE snow! Now how about those end of run treats?" says the
happy, fun kids.

A "yay for snow" skijor day: 7 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2024/2025 Season to Date: 26 days on the trails covering 204.2 miles with 19,600 feet of elevation climbed.