Christmas

We have weather coming for a week or so and neither Jax or I like to hike much when the weather is single digits which we have a chance of around New Years. So with temps in the mid 40s and a 10 or so mile an hour wind we hiked all the way out past the Wind Caves and at the first creek dropped into the creek bed. Then we stayed close to the river where the cows have trampled through all the tamarisk. 

In the four plus hours we were out there we saw one Jeep and two side by sides. It's pretty quiet this time of year.

Jax is so crazy. Just hiking on the road, nobody around, all of a sudden he attacks me playfully and wants to glove fight so I sit down in the middle of the road and glove fight him until he gets tired. He comes over licks the glove, licks my face, and then we continue our hike.

After the cows trampled everything down, nobody likes tamarisk anyway, then the side by sides went in and made all kinds of new roads I've never seen before.

Then Jax got lucky. Though the cows are suppose to be all gone, they aren't, and Jax and I ran across the last six and it's off to the races. Finally they got tired of being chased and banded together and stared Jax down. He stared back for a minute or so and then on a very rare occasion Jax walked away from trouble.