Action

A lot of fun action on this morning's skijor!

Come along for the fun!!!

The shade makes this photo kind of dark; but it's still a really cool
action shot of fast & airborne Jack & Rudy. Zoom!

We spent the morning on the single track side trails and super wide nordic trails in & around Gold Run Nordic Center. The nordic stretches were groomed this morning and lightning fast for the kids. Wheeee!

Jack & Rudy catching air on the perfect nordic groom!

The single track "side trails" were just about as fun as the wide nordic trails. Maybe even more fun :)

Zipping along a deep single track that is perfectly 2 Siberians Wide.

Then, when your teammates are "4 year old kids", you get unapproved action during the day too :) Jack just rolled an impromptu snow angel off trail to the right of this photo. Always goofy Rudy is challenging Jack's entrance back onto the trail. Meanwhile, the human (ME) is looking at the perfect groomed trail in front of us that we SHOULD be skijoring on... Oh those kids!

"Snow angel done, coming back on trail!" says comical Jack.
"Can't get by ME!" replies goofy Rudy.
"Sigh!" said the poor human waiting for the antics to subside...

Back to the real action with today's video highlight. I love this action clip showing 3 degrees of skijoring with my pals: 1) zipping along a wide nordic trail; 2) dropping single file onto a narrow connector trail; and 3) lining back up to zip along a groomed single track. That's a lot of action in one 60 second clip!!!

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Great action today, right guys?

"Woo Bet!!!!" replies always wooing Rudy.
"I'm action jackson!" adds fun Jack :)

Finally, as always, reliving the day as we enjoy 'end of run' treats with retired mentor Zorro:

"We ALL see the treat bag - dish them out!" says the trio focusing on
the bag in my hands!

A wonderful day of action on the trails: 10.8 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 108 days on the trails covering 906.8 miles with 85,600 feet of elevation climbed.

Widths

Oh those silly kids rolling snow angels when I paused us briefly on the trails this morning :)

"You pause, we roll!!!!!" demonstrates the silly snow angel twins.

Today was a really fun outing with Jack & Rudy. Well, every outing is fun, but some just have an extra fun feeling than others.

Today's extra fun? Well, laying fresh tracks in new snow almost the entire outing and skijoring in all widths of trails. From very narrow to very wide! Come along for the fun...

We spent the beginning of the outing with fresh snow over a narrow snowmobile track weaving through the forest. The musher (me) has two things to watch for on such narrow and forested terrain. First, watching my skis as we whip through and around the trees. Second, watching my head for low hanging branches! It's not enough to just watch Jack & Rudy as I have to keep track of what's "taller than them but shorter than me" such as low hanging branches. What a workout for the human!

Working the human as we weave through the forest!
Look out for that tree!

Next, we transitioned onto much wider and open terrain but were still in fresh snow over a snowmobile track. Finally, I can stop looking up for branches and concentrate on keeping pace with Jack & Rudy!

Wide & open terrain but still in a snowmobile track under 
the fresh snow.

Finally, we moved onto ultra wide trails. We were still laying fresh tracks, but the packed trail under the new snow was as wide as a snowcat. Time to uncork Jack & Rudy to set the speed while I glide over the morning's fresh snow. Zoom.

The Jack & Rudy bullet train as I'm working the skis the best
I can to keep pace :)

My favorite part of the outing? Well, that's a hard one. Today I'll pick the "mid width" stretch of trail. Come along as we are really flying along in fresh snow over a snowmobile track on wide & open terrain. Wheeee!

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Back to the trailhead with our retired mentor, Zorro. What was everyone else's favorite part of the day?

"I like you all returning for 'end of run' treats!" states Zorro.
"Gosh, can I love it all?!?!?" asks giddy Jack.
"I like 'flooring it' on ANY terrain!" says 'beautiful stride' Rudy :)

Fresh tracks fun almost all morning long - fun: 9.2 miles traveled with 700 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 48 days on the trails covering 378.9 miles with 35,900 feet of elevation climbed.