Mission Accomplished!

[Big Skyz]

The town I live in is called "Belt" it is named after a belt-like rock formation that encircles a large butte near town. To reach the belt around the butte is about a 5 mile hike from my front door. Since moving here I have wanted to hike up to the belt around the butte and see it for myself. I finally got all the different land owners between my house and the butte to agree to let me hike in there. So yesterday along with my youngest son Hunter and my new puppy Bear we headed out.

Here I am with bear. The butte is in the background. We still have a mile or so to go to reach the "belt".
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Troy%20Belt%20ButteC_zpsku0hnggb.jpg

Here Bear and I are standing on top of part of the rock formation.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Troy%20Belt%20ButteD_zpsc1jdy0gc.jpg

Bear and I from another angle taking a little break before we start our decent back out.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Troy%20Belt%20ButteB_zpsjpk7om22.jpg
My youngest son Hunter as we work our way back down off the butte. The rock "belt" formation can be easily seen in the back ground.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Hunter%20Belt%20ButteB_zpskxltsrb9.jpg

All in all it was a fun hike and quality time spent with my son and the new puppy. Here is a photo of the butte as we looked back. We still had over a mile to go before reaching home and we had to hurry as the sun was going down quickly along with the temperatures. We made it home fine and I'm not even sore today. So I'm a happy 50 year old fat man. :)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Belt%20Butte%204-16-15_zpsvrkwzxyi.jpg

One last pic of me heading for home. As a side note hikes like this do a body good. Trying to keep up with my puppy has been even better. I've lost 15 lbs in the last few weeks largely due to trying to keep up with the little bugger.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh113/Huntzz/Troy%20Belt%20ButteA_zpscrknjezi.jpg

[jb]

Nice pup, great pic's. It's nice to see the snow gone too.

[Captain]

That is some cool country out that way. Sound like a good trip.

[LJ3]

Very pretty country!

[Thumper]

Great looking pup! And you have NO CLUE what an old, fat man is! ;)

[Big Skyz]

Thump remember we have met in person...;)

[Niner]

Thanks for posting the "trip report".

Dose not always have to be about fishin' and hunting. I sure wish I could have joined y'all on your litttle "walkabout".
I'll betcha the view from Belt Butte was outstanding as well..

[Thumper]

Thump remember we have met in person...;)

Oh yeah. I guess you DO know! ;)

[Big Skyz]

Niner, it was a spectacular view, but unfortunately the sun was setting in that direction so it was impossible to take a photo. I might have to make the same trek in the morning sometime and take a photo or two from what it looks like when you are on top of the world, so to speak.

[DeputyDog]

I'd love to see those pics from the top.