We had a freshly groomed snowmobile atop Rabbit Ears Pass to ourselves all morning long!
Wow, What a Day!!!!!
Pretty much the entire day looked like this - a freshly groomed sprint track
all to ourselves!
Today's video highlight is the start of our morning run. We start as Nancy has just released her hold on the three beasts. All three quickly launch forward and align to take off. You can a handful of snowmobile tracks over the groomed trail as everyone moves right to get on the groomed track. After about 30 seconds, all snowmobiles disappear from the groomed trail and we had this untouched groomie zoomie all to ourselves the rest of the outing. Wow, what a day!
Here we are gliding in & out of sun & shadows with the fresh groom all to ourselves!
A little further along and...
Fresh groom all to ourselves as we glide in & out of some curves on the trail. Wheeee!
Oh boy, what a day! My partners were flying all over the beautiful groomed trail. We did an "out & back" on the Buffalo Park trail atop Rabbit Ears. Time to turnaround, everyone having fun?
"Oh my, we ARE having FUN!!!!!" declare the happy trio at our turnaround point of
the outing.
But, wait, did you say "turnaround"? Hold on...
"Gotta roll snow angels to cool off first!" declare the silly youngsters.
"<sigh>, children... <sigh>!" adds mature Zorro :)
A ridiculously fast day on absolutely perfect terrain: 6.9 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 22 MPH.
2018/2019 Season to Date: 75 days on the trails covering 406.9 miles with 36,100 feet of elevation climbed.
Young Jack & Rudy's first skijor at Vail Pass this morning.
Veteran Zorro's 93rd time skijoring Vail Pass :)
Youngest Rudy's first skijor over 7 miles this morning (7.6 miles total).
What a fun day!
"Now this is THE LIFE!" state the ecstatic pair enjoying Rudy's first "over 7 mile" skijor.
It was an absolutely beautiful bluebird morning with excellent trail conditions. Look at this incredible shot from the start of the day's run:
Flying sled dogs, perfect terrain and beautiful blue skies.
Boy was I expecting some beautiful video/photo footage from this morning's outing. But, take a look at this shot and uh-oh...
The blur left/center in this shot is a water spot on the GoPro.
Oh man... The prior photo is one of the few where the spot was not blurring one of the three fun guys. The spot was a result of slush flying off their feet and into the camera. But, I had no idea this spot developed less than 5 minutes into our outing and was there the rest of the day. Even worse, note that in the photos and video the spot has moved. This means it eventually dried but was continually replaced by a new slush bomb coming off the group's feet and into the camera! Darn...
If you can ignore the spot, come along for a short video clip from the morning. You can see the beauty of the day all around the spot. Oh the incredible footage we would have gotten without this annoying spot!
2/3rds of the way through the outing and time to turnaround...
"Turnaround? Rolling snow angels!" declares Jack.
"He's at it again!" adds Zorro.
"Why do we have to turnaround?" questions Rudy.
Jack finished his snow angel and, then, before we could get restarted look at what happened next:
"My turn, my turn! It is my longest run after all!" says Rudy now rolling a snow angel too.
"Not him too?!?! These kids!" states Zorro.
"Tasty snow too!" adds snow eating Jack.
A beautiful morning with an unfortunate blur spot on the camera almost the entire outing. Oh well, a fun time had by all on Rudy's longest run and Jack & Rudy's first Vail Pass run: 7.6 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.
2018/2019 Season to Date: 74 days on the trails covering 400.0 miles with 35,600 feet of elevation climbed.
Laying fresh tracks in 4-6 inches of powder atop the trails at Breckenridge Nordic Center.
Nordic Freshies :)
Beautiful "power shot" of the strong trio powering through 4+ inches of powder.
Look real close and just below the gangline and right in front of the carabiner is my buried
ski gliding in the powder. Wheeee!
It has been a delightfully snowy start to March and today was another example. There was 4-6 inches of fresh snow on the nordic center trails, it was snowing during our entire outing and it is still snowing!
Apparently the active snow scared everyone else away from the nordic center. We did not see any other tracks on the trails all day long (except our own :)
Another great shot of the trio powering me up a short & steep rise in the trail.
Today was young Rudy's first visit to the Hallelujah Hut (one of the two warming huts on the trails at the Breckenridge Nordic Center).
"It's never been this buried in snow before!" says curious Jack who has been to this hut before,
but never this covered in snow!
"Warming hut, silly!" says Zorro.
"No, really, what's a warming hut?!?!" asks perplexed Rudy.
Of course we know Jack's idea of a "warming hut" :)
"We stopped, I'm rolling to cool my jets. Who needs to be warmed?!?!?!" says silly Jack
at our turnaround point on the trail.
"Warming? No way, I'm going to play & eat the deeper side powder!" demonstrates Zorro.
"No, really, I give up - what's a warming hut?!?!?!" adds still perplexed Rudy.
We did an "out & back" on the trail going by the Hallelujah Hut. Come along for the "back" leg as we ignore our "out tracks" to the left to use the right side of the trail to continue laying fresh tracks as we cruise by the hut. Watch as the snow gradually collects on the camera until it starts to blur. We love when the camera is blurred by active snowfall!
