Cross country skiing "attractions"

We've been cross country skiing weekly with our Ski Club and it seems every meeting we have one of the kids in our Ski Club brings their dog. Usually that's the highlight of the day for G. (she's been asking for years to get a dog, which is not going to happen right now because of the managerie we already have).

This past week little Oliver went out on the trail with us and G. was in her glory with him.

The favorite activity for the entire Ski Club though is the hill about 1/4 mile from the Standish trailhead on the Mountain Division Trail.  It's just steep enough to be fun without the kids feeling out of control and not too difficult to climb back up. We seem to spend a whole lot of time there this year.

And sometimes we really clog up the trail with people - and pets - so that the snowmobiles have a hard time getting by us.

There's always a look-out at the bottom and top of the hill to signal a rider that we're there. It's a fairly visible place for the snowmobilers to see the group so it works out well for us.


Favorite hill on Mountain Division


But like I've said before, we've never really had a problem sharing the trail with the snowmobiles. Overall the riders have slowed down, offered a friendly wave and moved on down the trail. Only once or twice have we had a machine run by us too fast, which considering how much time we spend on the Mountain Division Trail (at least twice a week for a couple of hours each time), that's not bad odds (there's always going to be rogue in the pack regardless of the activity).

Probably one of the funniest things I've seen this year in our Ski Club is L.'s "ski running." Our group has kids that range in age from 5 to 14 and L. can outrun them all on cross country skis (not to mention that she has outrun nearly every adult as well including me and her dad).

She has wax-less skis this year which I think gives her a little more traction and she just seems to have the running rhythm. It cracks me up. And the other kids, who try to run on their skis like it's something to aspire to (really, I try to encourage them to glide!), can't seem to catch her. L. thinks this is extremely funny and I caught a bit of her "act" on video (which I have to say isn't as fast as she has done previously, we had skied for over an hour by the time I got around to recording her).

Ski Running


That's my L., always sharing her interesting perspective on things.