UTAH | Newspaper Rock and Hiking Adventures

Barely a bag in my shoes Pearl on my shoulders Heart full of blues out in the dirt Down in the dirt I'll be the real bad boy All the time of my life Starting to calm down I'll be the real bad boy Road closed Let's go Did you bring your bear spray by any chance? No, but we have Muffin and she's way slower than we are Ok Let me get out No? Hey bear That's where we're trying to go And we're not very close to that at all When all else fails There's something else that can fail Well, how about we just tell Liv That this, right here Is the lake We made it to the lake Do you want to throw rocks in there? Let's bring a rock with us, you can throw into the lake 1, 2, 3 More rocks It's like a fast moving lake Taggart Lake is somewhere that way It was supposed to be a half a mile from the parking lot Which, when you have this little person with you A half a mile is plenty for a hike to a lake Taggart Lake is nowhere to be found And we've been hiking for long enough Now we're playing in the little stream instead I think this stream is coming from Taggart Lake So it's like, sort of like we're there Liv, do you want to go back? No Do you have enough fruit pouches to last you a whole 45 minutes? Let's go Liv, there are bears that way No Alright, let's go up here and climb the mountain Wow, muffin Look at all that snow there, muffin Why are there mosquitoes everywhere? They're like the size of birds Let's get out of here Let's go to Jackson Mississippi? Maybe I should have her on my back so I can see where my feet are Woah Liv, do you want to find some animals? What do you want to find, Liv? A cow A cow? I don't think we need to go to a national park to find a cow What do you want to find? Buffalo Buffalo? Yeah Okay On the upside, coming here in off-season means perfect serenity Do you hear that? So many fewer people here this time of year It's just in between seasons Ski season is over, summer season hasn't kicked in yet Just a beautiful time of the year Muffin Yeah So what happened to us? We're here I think that we forgot about this part that says one mile and we just looked at this part that said 0.5 miles There's a buffalo It's a booger, yeah Holy cow Boo! That was a big booger, no wonder why you needed help with that These arches made of elk antlers have been the gates to Jackson Town Square since 1960 The elk shed their antlers every winter and then the Boy Scouts collect the antlers on the elk refuge just around the corner and that's how they were able to build these arches Hello Where's the horse? Right there Wow There are little shops and galleries and bars and restaurants all around each side of the square and we're on our way to go get ice cream Ice cream This is huckleberry ice cream Huckleberry Huckleberry is a local phenomenon Everything is huckleberry You can get huckleberry syrup, huckleberry candy, huckleberry chocolates and apparently huckleberry ice cream too and Moo's Gourmet Ice Cream won the 2014 Food Network Challenge for best dessert in each state and they won with this very ice cream Huckleberry ice cream We actually did find a moose There they are Hang on, what did that sign say? If sheep approach, keep driving slowly and prevent licking Licking much? I guess we're about to find out Let's just hope we don't find any sheep Especially ones that lick Are those sheep right there? I think so Keep driving, they're going to start licking You want to pet them? Yeah But they're wild animals so we can't pet them but we can wave to them and say hello Hello sheep Hi sheep I know, that's going to be disappointing when we can't pet animals I found this homemade shelter here on this little pebble beach I mean this is crazy, there's just all this driftwood The view is absolutely stunning Check it out Jump Let's go find some rocks Are these the most rocks you've ever seen? Yeah How many rocks do you have? Three You have one, two, two rocks Should we dump them all out? Ready? Do you want to live here with mama and papa? Papa Wow