Exploring

I thought I'd expand my horizons today by skiing down some new trails I'd never skied before. I put the girls in their harnesses and packed my skijor belt and lines, just in case I got lost and needed them to take me home, or I ran into a trap line and needed them to be hooked up.

The sun is rising higher nowadays, high enough to ignite and burn yellow instead of remaining pink/orange:


Happy little goober:


Lovely Miss 'Tumn:


We were the first to make tracks on this trail since the last snow dump:


The end! Some trails just peter out:


There were some burned trees and some very young ones. This was a recent burn area:


Our next exploration involved lots of hills:

I am getting more confident on them. Autumn and Linden sprint to the bottom and then dance encouragement for me to come down.

A pretty spot on the trail:


Happy girls!


Three hours later, sunset:


Fresh littlebunny tracks, and old bigbunny tracks:

"littlebunny" and "bigbunny" are technical biological Alaskan terms!

And of course, when we get home, we cuddle: