The Crags

Last Sunday (Jan 2) we all went snowshoeing in the Crags. It was a perfectly gorgeous day with just enough snow to really use the snowshoes. Tundra had a lot of fun running up and down the trail, crashing through the woods and plowing through the snow! (Anyone who knows Tundra knows that snow is her FAVORITE!) She rolled in it, ate it, and even jumped mid-air trying to catch some of it. She is truly an Alaskan dog (she was born there).

It's amazing how different the trail looks with snow. We hiked the same trail last summer with the dog all the way up the back side of Pikes Peak. (And, oh, by the way... the back side may be shorter, but it's quite a bit harder than taking Barr Trail!)



The snow wasn't quite sticky enough to build a snow man, but we are hopeful that sometime this season, we will be able to build a "snow-dog" instead of a snow man! When we do we will definitely post pictures.




Here's Tundra running through the snow...





When we were done snowshoeing for the day, we headed back to the truck. There was a large snowbank next to the parking lot where we parked, and another dog running around. Of course, Tundra had to say hello... they romped for a bit and then Tundra went plowed right into the snowbank! This wouldn't have been an issue, but she has been having some chronic knee pain and so she immediately came out of the snowbank limping severely and whimpering a little. Brian and I feared the worst and we resigned ourselves to the fact that she'd probably need surgery soon to fix it... but strangely, the next day she was even better than she was before the incident! Weird how things work out sometimes. :) We hypothesize she has a meniscus tear (for all you anatomy nerds out there, you'll know what I'm talking about!) and it must have been shoved back into its proper place when she ran in the snowbank. But man, Tundra sure looked like she was in pain after that! She said it hurt like a "son-of-a-cat!!!" Anyway, let's hope she doesn't need knee surgery again anytime soon.