Bird Ridge

Today we hiked up to Bird Ridge, which is just south of town. It was more like a workout than a hike. The first two miles you gain 3,400 feet in elevation. We had to keep stopping, because Neil's legs were too week. Banjo was a good hiker though. At the top there was still a few berms of snow. He went crazy and was running up and down as though he hadn't been hiking for the past 2 hours. We felt quite week, because there were a number of 70 year olds who either passed us or were on their way down. They didn't even appear as though they were hiking up the face of a mounting. It was a pretty beautiful hike though. We could look out over over Cook Inlet, and there seemed to be three bald eagles that liked to swarm over us (perhaps waiting for us to keel over so that they'd have a free meal.)

On our way home we stopped off for some Mexican food. It was pretty tasty. And we picked up some lamb puppy food for Banjo (apparently you're supposed to rotate the protein source of your dog's food every bag of food.) I also got Banjo the world's largest rawhide bone as a treat for being such a good hiker. The tag next to the bin said $6, but apparently that was for a different bone. His bone was $17. Banjo's such a spoiled puppy.