TrailDog Artisans Photography - Cary Leppert

Teig running next to Dudes Pond in Golden Gate State Park outside Golden, Colorado.

Teig the labradoodle passed out for a long nap.

Labradoodle on a high dune at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico as evening approaches.

Hiking Mount Falcon just outside of Morrison Colorado after a spring snow storm is one of our favorite activities. Teig loves to play in the deep wet snow. On this morning he is playing on one of the highest rock formations that overlook the Denver Metro Valley. It is fun for him and gorgeous views for me.

Teig pretending to be asleep with one eye sort of open watching me.

Teig slooking at the sunset from the top of South Table Mountain in Golden, Colorado

Teig on the summit of Woods Mountain in the Front Range of Colorado.

Teig facing the wind and the setting sun on Green Mountain outside of Golden Colorado.

Reflections in Teig's eye.

Teig checking out Littleton in the from a snow covered Matthew Winter's Trail above Morrison Colorado.

Dominic Chasing the Labradoodle at the park in the snow.

Teig watching the trout rise on a nice evening at Rainbow Lakes in the Front Range mountains of Colorado.

Teig on a dirt road near Aspen Ridge in the mountains of Central Colorado during the peak color run of fall.

Teig's Muzzle

Traildog looking across the valley to Mount Guyot in the Front Range of Colorado. The Colorado Rockies is fun in the summer with so many trails and beautiful peaks.

Teig at the summit of the ridges above Loveland pass in the Front Range Mountains of Colorado.

Teig (TrailDog) stares off into the sunset at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.

One of the most iconic places in America. Teig is standing on John Ford’s Point in Monument Valley. Some of the best westerns of all time had landscape shots from this very point. John Ford was one of my favorite directors and they named this location after him.

Teig resting in an alpine meadow on a saunter along the ridges above Cottonwood Pass in central Colorado. We like to take periodic breaks from hiking and just absorb the beauty of the high Rocky Mountains. It helps us keep centered and sane in our hectic crazy lives.

First thing Teig does when we get to the end of the hike to Ptarmigan Lake in the Sawatch Range of Colorado is get knee deep in the chilly lake and search for trout. I fly-fish periodically and he knows that if he searches for rising fish might mean a trout dinner at the end of the day. Unfortunately on this day, fishing was not on the agenda… but he does not care and will scout for those trout anyway.