Well done, --seed! So good to see you here!

LeeJ, I am sure glad you got your dog back, too. That's a hell of a climb and to spend three days, wow, tough old Blue!

It's funny, just before we left them last night, I offered my cellphone for emergencies. Something just said I ought to. I was thinking it must be about one of them, but now I know. When they first called me, they were in such a panic, having driven all over calling and peering into the darkness for a distinctive wavy, flag-tail.

I told them to go back to their tent and wait that she would come back. When I wrote to you all I was not near as confident and was feeling badly about not rushing up the mountain to be there for support.

Then I remembered something that has never failed me. I put a bubble of Light around my sisters and their camp, extended a line of Light out from it, visualised her dowg surrounded by this light and the line acting as a leash, pulling her back to them. After I got the image down, I gave thanks and let it go. About 10 minutes later, just after Spaw and Jenellen posted, they called me to say she'd come back.

I have helped to find many lost pets over the years and that has never failed. I was too frazzled to remember to do that, though, until I posted this thread and felt the calm assurance that Mudcatters would help out. THAT's when I calmed down enough to actually help.

Thanks a bunch for your stories and well-wishes. I will be sure to share them with my sisters.

Jeffp, thanks for correcting the myth about Pikes Peak. Long's Peak is gorgeous and was the inspiration for my brother's symphonic tone poem, Ode to the Rockies. Near Boulder, at least in my experience, Long's Peak looks larger and is just magnificient.

luvya'll...kat