Knox Lake hike

I'm slated to do a week-long hike in August and I'm a little concerned about it. Yes, I do a ridiculous amount of aerobics but these are different muscle groups entirely. It's gonna be hell.
I went on a hike with Heidi and Matt today that... well. We did eight miles in five and a half hours. Not great. But a beautiful hike. A wonderful day and the two dogs with us were completely zonked at the end.
On the way down, we encountered our friend Lucy. She was beyond impressed that we had gotten up so early (6:30 to beat the heat) and got done with ten miles so fast. It wasn't eight miles. The in-and-out hike is more like 10/11 miles. Love it.

I am a fashion PLATE! (I dressed at 5:30, what do you expect?)

3/4 of my hiking partners

My hiking group

Check that scenery!

Meadow right before the lake. Yep, that's snow

The small Callie-predator sits and waits for her Sophie-prey

At Knox Lake

After the rugby game tonight

I took some time out to do a couple of tourist poses.
Usually the elk don't come that close to us, but this time, they were right at the other end of the football field. It's kind of funny to be 50 yards away from the dozens of tourists who stopped to take pictures and realize that they don't see you at all. But then again, I live in a super-cool place and it's sometimes easy to forget how big peoples' vacation blinders can be. Though baby elk are pretty cool.

Pic from the parking lot, almost where we were playing

Tourist pic

Happy family

Walking the Dog

Sometimes a dog gets a little obsessed. On this particular day, my pupster decided that she absolutely wanted to eat a marmot. Why? I don't know. Anything smaller than her is something that Sam wants to explore. I'm not absolutely sure she ever wants to eat them but she does tend to obsess over things. Ever since this day, we have to stop by the school on every single walk. Whatever. She's happy and it's usually only a five to ten minute detour.

Sam intent on her prey

You see that she's never going to get to them

The lookout marmot

5 mile ski!

Five miles today!

Running

Two miles today with two good friends. It was the up the old road so some definite elevation gain. But we got to see some elk and my darling baby, golden girl was super stoked to get out for a good trot (Thank god I'm so slow otherwise we wouldn't have gotten to get out.)

Stafford Animal Shelter Fur Ball

Once again, I went to the Fur Ball. Wore a gorgeous blue dress. See below. It was so much better than last year. The group has really stepped up their game. More tables, more food, and actual animals were involved. Oyster shots that were highly enjoyable.

Birthday, birthday, birthday

Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream