Still Going

After a LONG week off, we were back on snow this morning. Yay for Skijoring in May!!!

"Are you having as much fun as me?!?" Rudy is yelling out to Jack :)
Love their footprints in the light layer of new snow.

With new snowfall Sunday & Monday, we were having a blast laying fresh tracks up, down and around Walton Peak atop Rabbit Ears Pass. The kids were ecstatic to have toes back on snow after a long, long, long week off :)

Catching air with fun footprints behind the kids again.

We did an out & back skijor this morning as I wanted to witness the trail conditions on the mostly uphill out leg before turning around and going much faster on the mostly downhill return leg. Wait, did I say "turn around" - yep!

"Turnaround, roll around!" goes the snow rolling sillies cooling themselves
off at our turnaround point.

Once, upright, it was time to floor it on the return leg. We were laying fresh tracks on the way out and then were second tracks to ourselves on the way back. At our highest elevation of the outing, the fresh snow was roughly an inch or two (as compared to the trace of new snow in the first two photos above):

Coming back down Walton Peak in the best snow of the day.

Now come along for the video counterpart to the prior photo. I love watching Jack & Rudy adjust to the conditions as they bounce around to find the firmest snow to support their weight at speed. Wheeee!

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Back to the trailhead and all the snow walls have melted. So, it was my turn to get down to Jack & Rudy's level as opposed to them climbing snow walls to come up to me as they prefer. Either way, human down or huskies climbing up, it's enjoyable end of run treats!

"We prefer climbing up snow walls, but we'll accept them this way too!" says
the happy & focused fun kids.

We don't have many outings left this season as it is melting fast; but today was a great outing for late May: 8.4 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2024/2025 Season to Date: 107 days on the trails covering 819.1 miles with 80,800 feet of elevation climbed.