Brighton Ski Resort
The head of Big Cottonwood Canyon
Salt Lake City, Utah
So far, every time I've been to the Brighton Granite Lakes
area I've seen a moose.
This time I saw 3 large males by Dog Lake (not the one by
Reynolds Peak, there is another Dog Lake by Lake Mary), and
2 large males in another (Could have been the same moose)
There was a severe rainstorm that was dropping marble sized
hail. Lighting was striking dangerously close, and the deafening
thunder seemed to be agitating the moose, who put on displays
that seemed aimed toward us.
He seemed to be very concerened with what I was up to.
You can see the rain and hail pouring down.
Every once in a while the moose would begin running around, sometimes
in circles,
kicking and digging at the dirt, as if to tell us to make the thunder
stop.
I think they thought we were causeing it.
This guy eventually got up when the storm became too intense.
I was able to shoot a lot of video footage, I wish I could post it
here,
but the server bandwidth would cost too much.
I'm making a CD-ROM, maybe I'll put this video on there.
I think this was the oldest one, he was the least impressed by us,
and the storm.
We continued up to Catherines Pass to watch the sunset.
Looking west, straight down Cottonwood Ridge, from left to right:
Sunrise Peak, Twin Peaks (East Peak) Dromedary, Unnamed, Unnamed,
Monte Cristo (Appears to be the tallest from this view), Unnamed and
Superior Peak.
Looking west down Grizzly Gulch toward the Cottonwood Ridge.
The Hellgate Cliffs can be seen in the middle bottom as the white
bands of limestone.
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