Sunday drive

After church on Sunday, we decided to go for a drive to Park City. I love to see the ski resorts and all the snow, and it's just a pretty drive. Well on our way home about 25-30 elk crossed to road right in front of us! The poor things were so scared of the cars jumped off the edge of the road right where the new wall is in Provo Canyon! How sad! If you haven't been up there, it's a huge drop from the west-bound lanes down the the east-bound lanes... probably a good hundred feet or so it seems to me. Some of them kept running down the road til there wasn't a drop. But can you imagine being in the cars in the east-bound lanes?! Elk dropping from the sky... splat on the road... sad... crazy... yikes! Anyways! I tried to take some pictures, but at first the flash was on so there was a glare on the windsheild, then it was too dark to have the flash off so none of them really turned out...




Ok, now to set the story straight! We were watching Fox 13 News this evening where we heard something to the effect of "Fish and Game said that 6 elk jumped of a cliff in Provo Canyon after a car got too close, forcing them off..." Appearantly, they were misinformed! There were only three cars there... and we were all stopped completely when they crossed! Some of them ran straight down the mountain, across the road, and over the edge. I bet they would have done the same thing if there were no cars! And the ones that we eventually got close enough to to take pictures of didn't jump! We only got close to them after we passed the cliff! And as soon as we did get close to them they ran across the other side of the road towards the river, and one even ran back in front of us (and we STOPPED again!) and went back up the mountain! So if anyone is to "blame" for the elk jumping off the cliff, maybe it's the people who thought it would be a good idea to put a cliff there haha... I don't know. I feel terrible about the dying, and we knew the cliff was there so there is no way we would get close enough to make them jump. That is so sad! But we didn't kill them!