Hiking The Rocky Mountain Range

The oldest and I love to hike.  Each summer we plan out day hikes we can take to get in touch with nature and also get to know each other better as well.  This year is no different.  We began our hiking routine again last weekend when we decided to hike up Mill - D trail up to Dog lake.

It was a beautiful hike up Big Cottonwood Canyon just above our home.   It was so green and lush, and the smell of the pine tree forest was just so refreshingly pleasant.  We hiked up a stead incline for 2.5 miles the last stretch was the worst of it 20 minutes of full on up hill hiking.   I really had to push myself to make it up the steep incline, and my legs were burning!  It was worth it though, because the lake was clear and so pretty, and an adolescent moose came down from the trees to drink from the lake right next to us.  It was such a pretty day, after we got down the mountain, we decided to go to Sapa for Sushi it was sooo yum, yum, yummy, we filled up on delicious sushi rolls and then rolled on home.

What a great day, here are some pic's of the hiking trail.