Excelsior Catahoula

This weekend's field trip was to High Divide Trail up to Excelsior Pass. We didn't make it all the way, just to the meadow. We left in the mist and ended up ten degrees colder and a few thousand feet higher.

Othello is all frisky in the snow and probably tripled the 6-8 miles that I hiked. Here's a picture right before we turned back. The snow was a bit too deep, and I needed snowshoes (unlike the Catahoulas, that have webbed toes). Hiking the mountains definitely mellows him out.