The dogs were due for an outing, not a walk around the block, an outing. So, not being so much into walking when you can be skiing, I took them to Empire Pass. The super-easy outing that is just great to exercise the dogs as they have to punch through all that deep stuff while I coast on all the existing cut trails. Except that today there were no cut trails at all, the trail breaking was deep, and it required punching through a top crust before getting into the deep stuf and did I mention the wind and the arctic cold? Bottom line both the dogs and I got a wee bit more than we bargained for, which isalways great in the winter season! Right? Here are the pictures (click to enlarge):
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Not being trained at all in photography, I always struggle at rendering
movement. This is my first attempt at showing howling winds... |
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| ...and here is my second attempt. |
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| Here is Skadi the snow dog wearing it... |
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...and this is her having had enough of the deep trail breaking, arctic cold
and howling winds. She just turned around and was probably bee-lining
for the parking lot (she has done that before in storms)... |
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...but we got her to come back and here she is with Loki, both of them with a
distinctly arctic feel. |
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| Calyton Peak and 10,420. |
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| View of Daly's Chutes. |
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| View all the way to the Uintas and Windy Ridge. |
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