Pooches and Moose

Hello internet… not much going on around here.

When we moved to UT we thought that Chopper, our dog, would love it here. So many great mountain trails to sniff, plenty of space to run, and sweet mountain water to lap up. Well, we didn’t do our research… The Wasatch Mountain Range is pretty strict- when it comes to pooches- because of the water shed. We drink the water that comes down from those mountains, you see…

Thus, no dogs allowed in all the major canyons. What?? Bummer, because we LOVE the mountains. (I think I could spend all my time up there… live up there. Climb, hike, board every day of my stink’n life. Oh, wait I think you all know that already.)

Don’t deer poop too? What’s with all the chlorine and hard stuff in my water if it’s fresh mountain stream water? Can’t they clean out doggy doo too? Okay, okay. Really I’m fine with it. I understand. I like dogs but I’m not a dog lover so I can see why they might not want to deal with all that. Preserve nature and stuff…. ya dee yaa de…

My point was…. we went on a lovely hike over the weekend. There is one canyon (Millcreek) that allows doggies and it turns out to be pretty fun because others are there with their four legged hounds as well. They run up to each other, sniff and move on. Luckily we rarely run into an aggressive poochie.

The hike was absolutely beautiful. We had a lovely treat to run in to two moose right off the trail. They weren’t even afraid of us or Chopps. They just kept munching on the bushes. It was a bull and his cow… isn’t it mating season? We watched them for a while. Super cool!

Well, I rarely blog at night and now I know why… Jer wants a turn at the computer so I’m getting booted. I think it’s my bed time, nighty night.