Go ahead, don't believe me, most people don't but I am going to tell you what I saw around here near good ol' Ephraim, UT.
Today, just about a half hour ago, I was driving up the Canyon Road in my car and it was a little dark, just on the paved part of the Canyon Road near some houses, I saw a Red Fox with a white tip on the tail crossing the road. I stopped to look for it on the side of the road and I saw him again and he was looking out somewhere else. It was the coolest thing. He also had a white face. Then he ran down into a stream and disappeared.
A few years back, in the winter time, I walked all around Mill Hill/Dead Horse Hill around a lot. Then every time I went up in that area, I would go watch this Bald Eagle sit on a big dead tree on a big branch. He or she was on the same spot every time. One time I dared to walk closer to get a better view, it was really cool to see the eagle flap away with it's big wings. I remember one time it was a very windy spring day, just last year I think, I saw about maybe 8 or so bald eagles flying in circles really high in the sky above the house, ask my mom and dad if you don't believe me. It was unbelievable to see a lot of them above playing in the wind.
About 5 or 6 years ago while I was doing some trail work on the Pioneer Bike Trail in Ephraim Canyon, while I was walking down the trail with an big axe in my hand, all the sudden I see a big black fluffy thing walking up the trail towards me, then it paused looking at me, suddenly it ran up the hill on the side of the trail running away from me. I thought, "what the heck was that? No, it can't be....a bear?" I didn't believe it for a while and tried to refresh my memory and couldn't think of anything else but it could be a bear. It was a Black Bear and they are the only bear species in Utah and you see them RARELY in Sanpete. It was the most unbelievable thing I have even seen in my life in my own backyard and it only lasted 5 seconds. I wish I could have saw the bear longer. Most people in town didn't believe me and thought I was crazy. They were looking at me like I was saying I saw an alien. But just this year, my friend's sister and mother saw a Black Bear in that same spot in Ephraim Canyon and now everybody believes me!
Well, I hope I can see more amazing animals around here at home and I just to need to be pretty darn lucky.
Oh yeah, I saw a few cougars maybe twice up in Ephraim Canyon. They are so cool! Go ahead, don't believe me but I know what I saw.
