Taggart Lake

So this blog will been an 'undocumented' one. As mentioned earlier I am down to one camera, and that one is occasionally unreliable.  As is I am going to keep it short. We started the loop with the intent to finish it. We took the right hand side of the loop over the bridge along the creek and around to the lake where we stopped had some lunch and then headed out to complete the loop.  However after a half mile beyond the lake we came to an obstructionism that made us turn back.

The girls were running ahead of Kevin, when he had the sudden sense to shorten the gap between them . He called for the to wait for him and caught up, right as they began to head off together, a huge bull moose ran full speed across their path  about 30 feet up the trail.  He waited for Jack and I to catch up and then we all proceeded as a group. Another hundred yards or so up the trail and we heard a ton of rattling and grunting, and through the woods, we saw a tangled mess of large brown legs, giant antlers. Three Bull Moose testing their right to breed just a few short yards ahead of us. We stayed for what felt like a lifetime but was probably more like 5 minutes, watching them before we turned around and headed back the way we came.

As is our philosophy every time we go out into the wild we accept that we are entering the home of the wild, and as we would want respect in our home we give it to those whom home we are venturing into. We didn't venture further on the trail to see if there was room to squeeze by. We gave them space and took ours. We also warned the few hikers we did cross about the moose. So no pictures to prove my tail but a lasting memory none the less.