Caught in a Cattle Drive

Cowboy in Escalante, originally uploaded by BillyCrafton.

During our trip out to Utah, we headed out to Escalante and headed down the back roads to get Peekaboo Slot Canyon.

On the drive in, we saw a large dust cloud in front of us and discovered that we had a cattle drive coming down the road right at us.

I stopped the car and put it in park to keep from scaring the cattle and had enough time to grab my camera out of the camera bag. There were 3 cowboys and 1 or 2 cattle dogs driving the cattle to a different area to rotate them from eating an area down too much. In different areas, there were cattle crossings to keep the cows in their specific areas.



It certainly made an interesting experience as we had a cattle drive go around us!