Skijor the Ski Resort

Smiles all around as we complete our Skijor of Breckenridge Ski Resort this morning!

Wheeee!

It has become an annual tradition for us, when Breckenridge Ski Resort closes Peak 9, we go out and skijor the ski resort. Technically, the ski resort is still open as they attempt to stay open as far into May as the snowpack allows. But, come mid-April, the crowds start to shrink and the resort begins to shutdown some of the ski runs to match the need. The first to close are usually the runs on Peaks 9 and 10 (while they keep the runs on Peaks 6, 7 & 8 open). Once they close Peak 9, it is time for us to get out and skijor up and down downhill ski runs.

We never know what we are going to find, condition-wise, when we head out to Peak 9. Sometimes we find a groomed trail (as they groom for maintenance and other operations) and sometimes we find ungroomed slick terrain. This morning we found a groomed trail; but it quickly turned towards Peak 8 (which is still open), so we could not follow that trail. Instead we cruised around ungroomed trails on Peak 9 for a while. A bit slick, but still fun:

A bit slick, so polite Jack & Rudy are keeping speeds to a minimum.

Then, partway through the outing and look what we ran into coming up the trail!!!!

A groomer! A groomer! Yay!
"Cool!" says fascinated Rudy.
"Thanks dude, now the human will let us GO fast!" adds Jack.
The groomer driver smiled and waved to us as he passed by.

Alrighty - a groomed trail. Jack and Rudy know what to do with that!!!!

Zoom! Thanks Mr. Groomer!

It was zooming the rest of the day on this freshly groomed trail. Here we are near the end of the outing cruising by Beaver Run Resort.

Groomie Zoomie!

Now come along for a fun "skijor to the finish" on the great groomed trail we came upon. If you are wondering about Jack & Rudy at about 20 seconds into the clip (as they slow a bit looking around). Well, there was a bunch of employees to our left doing "shutdown work" and nosy Jack & Rudy wanted to see what was going on. Once past the employees, we pick up the pace again. Nosy kids!

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How fun, let's go have end of run treats in front of the ski resort trail map:

"Ready!" says the happy, happy kids.
Nice shot of the trail map behind Jack & Rudy.

Remember ski resorts are designed for downhill skiing. So our "skijor the ski resort" outings are typically short in distance but large in elevation. Today: 6.3 miles traveled with 1300 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 25 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 136 days on the trails covering 1207.6 miles with 110,300 feet of elevation climbed.

 

Powder Jack

A bit windy high up near treeline on Baldy Mountain this morning!

Jack & Rudy breaking trail in 10+ inches of powder as the haze you see
in this photo is snow blowing all around us.

We skijored two laps on Baldy Mountain this morning. On the first lap we went high to near treeline. Once we got up in elevation, the snow was deep, deep, deep! Some of it from snowfall and some of it from wind blown drifts. Jack & Rudy had a very aerobic romp through the deep powder!

Breaking trail in about 18 inches of powder in this shot! POW!

But, we did spend the majority of the outing down "in the trees" lower on Baldy. The powder was only a couple of inches deep down lower in the protection of trees. Jack earned the nickname Powder Jack long ago for his love to run in shallow powder over set tracks. If the snow is shallow enough for him to keep pace in the powder, he'll always run there over set tracks. Thus, Powder Jack.

Only one person had been on this trail before us. Rudy chose to run in the
existing ski track while Powder Jack chose to run in the shallow powder instead.

Come along for the video counterpart to the prior photo. Powder Jack having a blast in the shallow powder running alongside Rudy in the single set ski track. Wheeee! 

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Of course, skijoring Baldy means we get to flirt and fly on by oncoming skiers all morning long :)

"Hi... Bye... Made you smile!" says Jack & Rudy cruising on by.

Deep powder up high, shallow powder down low, what a fun array of conditions, right guys?

"Yep! Now how about those end of run treats?!?" says the focused pair.

Fun powder day on Baldy Mountain: 7.2 miles traveled with 1100 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 52 days on the trails covering 441.1 miles with 39,400 feet of elevation climbed.

 

Rudy Birthday

Today is young Rudy's 5th birthday! My how the little woo machine has grown fast!!!

"Happy WOOday to me!" belts out wooing Rudy.
"Who sings 'happy birthday' to himself?" asks curious Jack :)

I could not have asked for better conditions to put together the perfect skijor outing for Rudy. We have yet to skijor Baldy Mountain this season as that terrain is very steep and very rocky without sufficient snow cover. I have been waiting for the powder day to let us do Baldy for the first time this season. Well, last night delivered as Breckenridge Ski Resort got 11" of powder and we even had 4+ at home. So off we went to Baldy to enjoy a fresh powder day for Rudy's birthday.

Why is Baldy perfect for Rudy? Well, Rudy's three favorite activities are wooing, running and flirting (in that order, I believe). Baldy is popular with locals and always full on powder days. The perfect place to woo, run and flirt...

Here we are near the beginning of the outing and I asked Jack & Rudy to move to the right to let this skier pass by. As she got close she said, "Wow, I wish I had your setup!" Rudy responded, of course :)

"WOOOOO! I'd tow you tooooo!" responds the wooing flirt.

So many opportunities for Rudy to "flirt and fly" on the trails today! Jack too, but we'll focus on Rudy for his birthday...

"Coming through! Aren't I impressive?" says flirting Rudy to the
oncoming skiers as we fly by.

We are always great entertainment for the skiers on Baldy as we bring smiles to their faces as we fly on by:

"Whee - made you smile!" says cruising by Jack & Rudy.

We also took two side trails off the main trail to enjoy a little untouched powder:

Yep, 11+ inches of fresh powder on Baldy too!

But, we spent the majority of the day on the main Baldy Trail for the wooing & flirting birthday boy. Come along for a fun ride on steep Baldy. This is one of 4 passes we made on this stretch of trail and each time we encountered multiple skiers to flirt with as we flew on by :)

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What a fun birthday celebration for the wooing, running & flirting redhead. A PERFECT day for him!

"That was FUN!" exclaims happy Rudy.
"Hey, I had a blast too!!!" adds happy Jack.

What a week: a Christmas run where Jack surpassed 5,000 career skijor miles, a great skijor for my birthday on the 27th and a flirtatiously fun skijor for Rudy's birthday today! Unfortunately, Jack's birthday is July 20th, so this wraps up our week of skijor birthdays.

One thing about Baldy - we trade distance for elevation: 7.4 miles traveled with 1400 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2022/2023 Season to Date: 50 days on the trails covering 423.8 miles with 37,600 feet of elevation climbed.

 

Skijoring the Ski Resort

One of our favorite annual traditions: Skijoring Breckenridge Ski Resort!

Kicking up dust in shallow powder as we zoom under a ski lift. Wheeee!

We started this tradition back with Max & Zorro. Then, Zorro introduced it to Jack and then Zorro & Jack introduced it to Rudy. Finally, Jack & Rudy have continued to carry on the annual event. We try to "skijor the ski resort" every year when they start to shutdown terrain for the end of season.

Technically speaking, Breckenridge Ski Resort is still open for operations as they try to keep some terrain open as far into May as conditions allow. The resort has ski runs spanning 5 peaks (named peaks 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) and they close peaks 9 & 10 in mid to late April and shift all operations to 6, 7 & 8. They then start to close off parts of 6/7/8 as the snow melts until everything is eventually closed. Well, Peak 9 is our favorite peak, so we are thrilled that it is one of the first to close as it usually still has snow to use (it's not profitable to staff & keep all 5 peaks open in April/May).

We try to get out on Peak 9 within days of it closing and this year it closed for the season yesterday. We never know what conditions we are going to find on the peak. But, the ski resort tends to keep grooming a few tracks on the peak for a couple of days for both maintenance and to give locals a chance to ski up & down terrain that all the tourists are told is closed :) As usual, we were thrilled to find a groomed track along one of the runs on Peak 9 - wheeee!

Catching air as we FLY along the groomie zoomie ski run on Peak 9.

This year, though, we had some added entertainment. The resort got upwards of an inch or so of new snow overnight. As a result, there was fresh snow sprinkled across all the runs on Peak 9. With a light layer of powder, we are able to ditch groomed trails and fly up & down any run we chose! Without the new snow, the ungroomed runs would have been too tracked up from yesterday and then iced overnight for me to be able to safely skijor behind Jack & Rudy. But, as you see in the first photo and next photo - we were able to ditch the groomed trails and make our own way laying fresh tracks on endless ski runs. So fun!

Laying fresh tracks as we FLY along a beautiful ski run!

Come along for the video counterpart of the prior photo. It does not get much more fun than this! New snow on fast & endless ski runs. Zoom, zoom, zoom!

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As I mentioned, all the locals know that Peak 9 is still secretly "open for skiing" if you know how to get yourself up the mountain. Who needs a ski lift when you have snow machines? Yes, either snowmobiles or sled dogs are the preferred way to get up the mountain today :)

Jack, Rudy & I completing our morning outing as a snowmobile is
towing other skiers up to enjoy the "locals only" ride down too :)

Some use snowmobile to get up, some expend the effort to "skin up" themselves and then some use sled dogs to get up the mountain. I prefer sled dogs!

"Us too! Who wouldn't prefer sled dogs?!?" asks happy Jack & Rudy.
These smiles are at one of our turnaround points after the kids towed me
up. Rudy is just finishing rolling his snow angel to cool off before
we started back down.

So much fun today. Let's go thank retired mentor Zorro for pioneering this annual tradition:

"So Fun!!!!" declares the ecstatic kids.
"I taught them EVERYTHING I know!" adds proud Zorro.

Remember that ski resorts are designed for downhill skiing, so our outings on the resort are always very high in elevation without as much mileage as we do on a normal skijor: 6.4 miles traveled with 1400 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 24 MPH.

2021/2022 Season to Date: 138 days on the trails covering 1169.7 miles with 109,800 feet of elevation climbed.

 

Return

Another great morning Skijoring Breckenridge Ski Resort. Wheeee!

Jack & Rudy zipping along as we pass by trail
signage at Breckenridge Ski Resort.

We had so much fun skijoring Peak 9 yesterday that we got up early to go again today. As I described yesterday, Peak 9 is now closed for the season but you can still find a groomed trail or two (or more) as the ski resort is still doing maintenance and other tasks on the mountain. This does not go unnoticed to locals in the area. Everyone who lives here knows that Peak 9 is still useable with a random groomed trail here and there. You just have to skin or hike up the mountain to make use of the "tourist free" terrain :) As a result, we encounter the occasional kindred spirit along the way:

Jack & Rudy flying along as the "dot" in front of us is a
snowboarder coming down the mountain.

Come along for the fun video counterpart to the prior photo. Watch closely and you can see the snowboarder coming down in front of us. Jack & Rudy were intrigued and wanted to catch and inspect the moving object in front of us. But, alas, the snowboarder crossed by before we got to him. So we might as well continue flying along the trail we are on :)

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Yesterday we had a ton of soft powder to gallop through when not on groomed trails. Unfortunately, those same powder trails from yesterday were punchy trails this morning. Not solid enough to be a crust but hard enough to be punchy. But, once we got high enough in elevation, the untouched snow was soft again. As a result we went powder plowing for a while when we were above 10,500 feet in elevation.

Powder fun! Wheeee!

But, the majority of our outing was spent below 10,500 feet in elevation. Not a problem, we just stuck to every groomed trail we could find!

Flying along a groomie zoomie as we cross under a chairlift.

Remember ski resorts are designed for downhill skiing. Thus, we climb a lot of elevation on our tours around the resort. After each big climb, the silly kids needed to cool their jets before launching back down:

"Aahh!" declares the snow rolling giggle twins.

Back to the base area to meet up with our retired mentor, Zorro, to show him how well he taught us the last 2 years!

"Hi Zorro!" smiles Jack & Rudy.
"Looking good, I taught you well!" adds inspecting Zorro.

With a steep skijor on the ski resort this morning, we were able to surpass 100,000 feet of skijoring for the season. Yes, Jack & Rudy have towed me up (and launched me down) over 100,000 feet in elevation! Today's tally: 8.7 miles traveled with 1600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 143 days on the trails covering 1166.3 miles with 100,100 feet of elevation climbed.

Skijoring the Ski Resort

A beautiful "fresh tracks Tuesday" on this late April morning!

Jack & Rudy laying fresh tracks in about 4 inches of
fresh powder. Wheeee!

But, wait, look at the prior photo a little closer. What is that far to our left? Hey, a chairlift! What is that dead ahead of us? Hey, the Peak 9 Base Area of Breckenridge Ski Resort! Yes, that's right, today was one of our favorite annual traditions: Skijoring the Ski Resort! We try to get out on the ski resort trails shortly after they close for the season. Technically speaking Breckenridge Ski Resort is still open. But, the resort has ski runs across 5 peaks of the 10 mile range (Peaks 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10). With dwindling tourist traffic in April, the ski resort will shutdown operations on peaks 6, 9 and 10 around mid-April. Peaks 7 & 8 will stay open as far into May as the snow remains. 

Back to today. Peaks 6, 9 and 10 are now closed for the season and Peak 9 is our favorite peak to "Skijor the Ski Resort" so off we went this morning. For the first few days after these peaks are closed, the resort will still groom select trails for maintenance, training and other resort operations. If you are lucky, you can catch a freshly groomed trail on one of the closed peaks. Well, luck indeed, check out this fun photo:

Jack the "skijor bowling ball" and Rudy the "skijor missile" FLYING
along a freshly groomed track on Peak 9 as we cross under
a chairlift. 

Today was probably one of our best ever skijors on the ski resort. Why? Well, we had a nice dump of fresh snow overnight. Around 3 inches at the base of the mountain and upwards of 10 inches mid-mountain! So, whenever we ran out of a groomed trail, we transitioned to perfect powder trails along the way. POW!

Jack & Rudy plowing through over 8 inches of powder
along this trail under a chairlift. Pow, pow, POW!

This excellent combination of "groomed and POW" made for an incredibly fun outing. Come along for an extended video highlight of one of our laps. We start out FLYING along the fast groomed trail. Then, it's time for us to change directions so I call out a "Left" and Jack & Rudy transition onto a powder trail with me and off we go powder plowing. What a fun morning!

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Remember that ski resorts are designed for downhill skiing, so the trails are steeper than our typical outings. That meant Jack & Rudy had to roll and cool the jets after each climb before we launched ourselves back down:

"Rub a dub dub, cooling the sled dog jets!" declares
the silly kids.

Finally, a fun shot of us arriving at the base of Peak 9 to meet up with Zorro and Nancy!

Happy kids towing me to the finish.
Excited Zorro greeting us to join in for end of run treats!

Such a fun day on the ski resort, we might go back tomorrow! 6.4 miles traveled with a top speed of 24 MPH and 1300 feet of elevation climbed (remember, ski resorts are steep :)

2020/2021 Season to Date: 142 days on the trails covering 1157.6 miles with 98,500 feet of elevation climbed.

Searching

 Searching the meadow for moose.

"We smell you! Where are you?!?" asks intense Jack & Rudy!

We were skijoring on Baldy Mountain when Jack did one of his "MOOSE! Must Exit Trail Here!' declarations. So, we drifted off trail into the deep snow in search of moose. This is the same location we saw a mother and child moose 15 days ago. Despite the intensity of Jack & Rudy, we failed to spot any moose. But, I could see their noses twitching away. The scent of moose was clearly all around us, they must have been hidden in the nearby dense trees. 

Outside of searching for moose, we spent the day skijoring up and down Baldy Mountain. Baldy is one of the steeper trails we skijor but is a blast to do with my partners when there is fresh snow to use for control. High up on Baldy, we had fresh snow in a set track barely two Siberians wide. 

Zipping along, shoulder to shoulder, in the fresh snow in a tight set track.

Fun thing to notice in the prior photo - a nice shot of my one of my brand new skis (second outing on these skis). You do not see my skis much in most photos/videos. If you see the skis, that means I am in a tuck and skiing hard to keep upright and under control behind my pals. When you don't see the skis, I am more upright and enjoying the tow behind my sled dogs. But, this much of the ski visible tells you I was working hard; this is one product of skijoring steep Baldy.

A little closer to the trailhead and the set trail is very wide. We love putting smiles on the faces of skiers we encounter on the trail. Who can resist smiling at fun & impressive Jack & Rudy?

"Hi... Bye... Made you smile!" says flying on by Jack & Rudy.

Come along for the video counterpart to the prior photo. We are flying along as we encounter this skier coming up trail. Jack & Rudy continue on by, putting a smile on the skier's face and off we continue to go. Once again, notice how much & frequently you see my skis in this video. A real workout on my legs to keep up & under control on steep Baldy behind flying Jack & Rudy!

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Since our route was up & down Baldy, we had to turnaround at the top. Turnaround?

Turnaround, roll around! What a pair of goofballs!

Finally, as we always do, celebrating the day with 'end of run' treats with retired Zorro:

"Ready!" declares focused Zorro.
"I'm next!" says happy Jack.
"Why am I always third?" asks curious Rudy :)

A fun day up & down steep Baldy: 6.4 miles traveled with 1000 feet of elevation climbed.

2020/2021 Season to Date: 31 days on the trails covering 239.2 miles with 21,800 feet of elevation climbed.

Baldy Treat

Oh Jack, you silly snow angel rolling Jack!

Snow rolling Jack at our second turnaround event of the morning.
The first turnaround happened with Zorro and Jack stayed upright that time!
"Oh come on - you can't expect me to remain upright through TWO turnarounds!"
demonstrates silly snow rolling Jack.
"Look at me - mature Rudy!!!!" says smiling Rudy turning without
rolling TWICE today!

This morning was one of the rarest of treats. A skijor on Baldy Mountain in mid April! Some background first: Baldy is an extremely steep network of trails with extremely rocky and uneven terrain under the snow.  We regularly skijor Baldy in the middle of winter when the snowpack is deep. But, we also ONLY skijor Baldy after 5+ inches of new snow - the terrain is way too steep for me to skijor behind my power three (or even two) without fresh snow to slow them down.

Now, come April, we need a lot of factors to come together to be able to skijor Baldy. First, it must have remained below freezing for multiple days (to firm up the spring dirt/mud below the snow). Check, it has been below freezing for three days straight. Second, it must have snowed multiple times in the preceding days to replenish the snowpack. Check, it has snowed almost daily for 7 days straight. Third, it must have snowed 5+ inches the night/morning before we go out on Baldy. Check, we had at least 6 inches of new snow at home, so more on Baldy! With these three factors in place, it was time to get out on for a rare April skijor on Baldy.

Today, we had a fourth factor. We were not first on the trail and multiple skiers had packed it before us. Normally I do not care if the trail has been packed as Jack & Rudy love to break trail. But, for "almost 12 years old" Zorro to come along, we need at least one packed single track on the trail. Check, some powder hounds had been out before us. I thought Zorro's days of skijoring Baldy were behind him as usually the snow is too deep when we go out early. With the set single track, though, we were able to let Zorro ride the middle with Jack & Rudy flirting in the powder on the sides.

Woo Hoo - an April skijor on Baldy!
Woo Hoo - a Baldy skijor with elder Zorro!!!!!

Come along for the fun ride as Zorro is cruising in the set track with his polite brothers dipping into the soft side powder. What a treat to skijor Baldy in April AND with Zorro!!!!

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Zorro came with for the first 1/3 of the outing as we went up/down Baldy. Here we are back to the trailhead and keeping our distance as we wait for all the other powder hounds who got out early to get on Baldy.

"Look at all the people who need our help going up!" says Zorro & Jack.
"Hey sir, you could use my help!" says Rudy to the skier passing by.

Once the traffic cleared at the trailhead, we handed Zorro off to Nancy and the kids, Jack & Rudy, and I went back out & up & back further on Baldy.

Both Jack & Rudy were in "2 year old" moods this morning. Their comical sideline antics were in rare form. Every once in a while I get reminded that they are really only 2 years old :)

Rudy back to an expert rodent swan dive for the second day in a row.
"Hey, little bro - what do you have over there?" asks Jack peeking back
to diving Rudy.

Did Jack need an answer from Rudy? Ha, no - you trust any rodent dive from your brother as a valid and necessary off trail surge :)

"I'm coming, I'm coning - INCOMING!" demonstrates low diving Jack.
As you see, Jack has his own low-angle rodent dives as
opposed to Rudy's high arching swan dives.

Despite the first picture above and the prior two, guess what? We really did do some skijoring on Baldy after we dropped Zorro!

OMG - the kids are upright, on trail and going forward!!!!!

One of the rarest of treats - a mid April skijor on Baldy with an unexpected addition of elder Zorro for the first 1/3 of the outing! 6.3 miles traveled with 900 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 150 days on the trails covering 1026.7 miles with 93,500 feet of elevation climbed.

Skijoring the Ski Resort

An annual tradition - Skijoring the Breckenridge Ski Resort!

A truly unique & fun adventure, right guys?

"Oh yes, we have such FUN skijoring the ski resort!" declares the ecstatic trio :)

Normally our annual "skijor the ski resort" happens in mid to late April when Breckenridge Ski Resort closes Peak 9 on the resort (Peak 8 is often open until Memorial Day). But, all 30 ski resorts in Colorado (as well as virtually all others in North America, if not all) are now closed to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. So, today was a rare day as our annual "skijor the ski resort" happened in March! Technically, the ski resort closed back on Sunday, but we waited a few days for the shock & crowds to die down before hitting the mountain ourselves. The mountain is still open for "uphill access", meaning if you are willing to ski up, then you can ski down. Well, very few people have the stamina or energy to ski up a ski resort, so you can bet you are way beyond the 6 foot distance rule to prevent virus spread :)

Anyway, the ski resort is a little too steep for 11-3/4 year old Zorro to come with for a run long enough to fully exercise the kids, Jack & Rudy. So, we started with the kids before adding Zorro in for the end. Love getting towed uphill by my young buffaloes!

The Power Kids putting all their strength into their shoulders as we
start our skijor up the resort at the QuickSilver Super Chair.

Jack, Rudy and I did 3 "up/down" laps on the resort around Ten Mile Station. Each up/down was a different path, but all three culminated at Ten Mile Station. The reward for each steep up was a fast and fun down. Wheeee!

Zipping along as we cross under a chairlift near Ten Mile Station.

Jack & Rudy were having a great time going up/down, up/down and up/down; but we did pass by the same building, Ten Mile Station, three times. The first time we passed by the backside and then next two were the same general angle on the front side. Well, despite trying to stay upright the entire outing, the 2 year olds could not contain themselves on the 3rd pass by.

"C'mon man! Three times by the SAME structure! What did
you expect from us goofy kids! C'mon man!" says the goofs pausing
to stop, drop & roll on the 3rd time past.

Now, remember few things. First of all, a ski resort is designed for downhill skiing so the pitch of the runs is meant to produce forward momentum. Second, they use lifts to take people up as few can propel themselves up once, much less more than once! Meanwhile, Jack & Rudy happily towed me up three times!

Now, come along for a view of the downhill action. But, a few things to note: I am on cross country skis (not the best for downhill slaloming!) and Jack & Rudy would prefer to go straight downhill. I slalom the best I can on XC skis but occasionally have to overcorrect far left or far right as the skis are not slalom grade. This has me telling my partners "left, left" or "right, right" a few times to get them to overcorrect with me. Unique and fun!

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Realize that this is Rudy's 2nd and Jack's 3rd time ever skijoring the ski resort and the first time for both without Zorro's guidance. Given that, I'd say they did pretty good listening to my left and right overcorrections despite their desire to go straight down!

Ok, done with a few laps to exercise the kids and as you saw in the first photo above, time to add Zorro to the team for the finale fun. We picked up the fun elder and went up a bit while Nancy went back down. Eventually we turned around for the final leg of today's skijor the ski resort!

Flying trio as we approach (and go by) Nancy on the side of the trail.

Too much fun to pay attention to mom today :)

Zooming on by we go!

Wheeee - hang on dad!!!!

On by Nancy and still FLYING down the ski run.
Hang on human!!!!!

What a fun day for one of our truly unique annual traditions: 6.5 miles traveled with 1300 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 125 days on the trails covering 848.7 miles with 77,800 feet of elevation climbed.