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On Sunday we tried to come up with a good way to say goodbye to daylight savings.  The forecast looked to be mixed - sun early, then clouds, with possible snow in the mountains.  We grabbed the dog and drove up to downtown SLC for breakfast at The Other Place (scrambled eggs with tomato, onion and feta for me; a Denver omelet for H).  After that, we took B on a walk up City Creek Canyon, one of the few area canyons that is not a Salt Lake City watershed and thus one of the few that allows dogs.

About three miles up City Creek Canyon

City Creek Canyon is sneaky.  At first it feels as though you're just walking in a gully back behind a swanky neighborhood.  Then, once you get a couple of miles in, cliffs loom overhead and you realize that yes, this is an actual canyon.  If we'd kept going, we would have connected with the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and the multitude of hiking/MTBing trails that crisscross the foothills.  We only went out about three miles though, at which point B started dragging her feet.  She perked up on the downhill return, but we knew the six mile roundtrip would be enough to wear her out for the rest of the day.

We two-legged people weren't too tired after the walk, however, and stopped by Squatters for a couple of Full Suspensions.  These were cask-conditioned and were much smoother than the regular brew - tasty!  After that it was home for laundry, watching the New York Marathon on the DVR and racking the current batch of homemade red wine before the sun went down early.