Derby Mesa

Fall is approaching quickly this year. I can hardly believe how fast the summer flew by. We haven't gone camping nearly as often as last year, but in the last few weeks we've definitely made up for our lost time.

Tyler took me out to Derby Mesa this weekend. He'd made an exploratory trip out there during the off season, and wanted to show me a few of the cool campsites he'd discovered. The leaves are starting to turn out there, so we want to get back within the next couple weeks.

Our new favorite activity while camping is using our Dutch oven. I don't know why it took us so long to buy one, but now we can't imagine a trip without it. Tyler said that he'd have been very sad to have lived before the Iron Age. It's the best camp cooking tool available —last week we baked corn bread, and this time we made stew with Deschutes Brewery's Obsidian Stout. By the way, our new life goal is camp and cook with different micro brews and equipment and get paid to do it — how feasible do you think this is?
 
It wasn't all eating and drinking — Moses is attempting to be the largest Frisbee dog ever. We practiced with him while we were waiting for ourstew to cook. The only problem is he's very selective of when he wants to attack the flying disc. Usually he actively pursues the Frisbee for about 10 minutes, and then he needs a break. It's funny because we always assumed that Aspen would love to jump and catch a disc or two, not our large moose-calf-like-dog.

Finally, as per usual, here's more visual documentation of the trip.