Saturday Hike Foiled

I find that most Saturday's are spent running around doing errands and then us squeaking something in afterwards. We had great intentions to go pick up Dan's brothers dog Petey and head up into the foothills for a nice hike. Unfortunately, some storm sitting over the foothills caused high winds down by us and what looked like really bad weather up there. We decided to chill out for a bit and wait for it to pass. Unfortunately, the storm didn't pass so we just walked from our house out to an open space trail for a 1 1/2 hr hike in the snow. It's amazing how tiring walking in the snow can be.

You can see the storm clouds just sitting above the foothills in these pictures.


It was coooooold and windy so we had to bundle up

Fortunately, Patch didn't seem to mind


We have to be really careful on this section of trail because there's a pack of coyotes that have lived there several years. We met a man out there while we were walking that told us that the pack has killed a dog last week and attacked the female hiker. That's really scary! We've heard several other stories from people walking dogs in our neighborhood about these coyotes, walking the trail at night is a no no. Luckily the other sections of this trail are safe and the coyotes don't seem to come around.

Afterwards we went to a brewery in Longmont called the Pumphouse for some good beers and burgers....yummy. We came home to find Patch devouring a bone my mom had sent him for Christmas.

Guess we'll have to try again on Sunday for the big hike in the foothills with the dogs.