Big Horn Crags

SO Jennie and I were trying to decide what to do yesterday since I didn't have to work, so we looked in some of my hiking trail books and found a hike that we thought would be really fun. It is in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness area, and the hike was located in the well known Big Horn Crags area. It is actually a backpacking trip of about fifty miles, and would normally take about 4-6 days to do it all, but we wanted to see what it was like, just to make sure that we wanted to do a week long trip back there. It is amazing and we are thinking about doing the whole 50 miles later this summer or fall if anyone is interested in going. To help convince you, here are a few pictures of what we were able to see in about an 8 or 9 mile round trip hike we did. Enjoy! Bentley snoozing in the truck! We thought for the actual backpacking trip we'd put him to more work and strap our sleeping bags on him like a mule....he's got to earn his keep!
Entering the Frank Church Wilderness! Here's the first lake we passed called Golden Trout Lake! Makes you wonder if there's a lot of golden trout...we could be rich!!
Bentley has his preference on hiking order. He'll usually follow me really well, but he rarely lets Jennie walk in front him. We were having a bit of power struggle on this hike, because he kept wanting to push me off the trail!
View of the crags from the top of the first climb! The big one on the right is where we hiked to!
Walking up close to the big boulders!
Cathedral Rock! AWESOME!
More cool boulders!

We actually had to do some bouldering along the way, which was really hard for Bentley! We finally tied a rope around him and yanked him over. Na, just kidding, Jen's just messing around and looking cute!

Poor Puppy!

I'm sure you all are tired of us weirdly doting over our puppy, but since Bentley is the object of our affection at the moment, I had to tell his sad story. Last night we were sitting down to play games with my parents, and Bentley was outside with my parents dogs cleaning up the left overs from dinner. I turned to look outside just in time to see Archer, a huge black lab/rottweiller mix, lay into Bentley for crowding his space...which for the record, we don't blame him. Bentley doesn't have much concept of personal space! So he started yelping and running away because he was scared...I thought, so I ran out to give him a little love and understanding, when I noticed he was bleeding REALLY BAD! There was so much blood that we couldn't tell if his eye had been bitten or if his lip was torn, and safe to say we were feeling pretty helpless! We grabbed a towel to try to stop the bleeding enough to see two tiney but extremely deep puncture wounds just below his eye. We took the little guy down to the vet and found out we'd have to leave him there for the night so he could get stitches. I was really sad to leave him!! I waited around impatiently all day today, because he kept tearing out his stitches, so they finally stapled the wound, and let me take him. The only thing that was somewhat fun about the situation is when Bentley's scared he's really cuddly, so he couldn't seem to get close enough to Brandon or me. Love it! But he's back to his old self today, and seems to have forgotten any fear he did or should have for Archer! In fact, I think he still likes him better than me : (

Our Baby!

Sooooo...we finally gave in and got a dog! We couldn't resist this little guy. We named him Bentley, and he's a 3 month old Aussie/Lab mix! He's an extreme show off, and when we first took him out to play at the shelter he slapped around a doberman that Gary was walking and scared him off. We knew then he was the pup for us!