The latest gear, trips, stories, and more, beamed to your inbox every week. On the way back I did the same thing but the other way. Wild turkey tracks. h1 width: 1029px; { margin-bottom: 0px; } > Moose: Moose can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and are the largest of the deer family. #countdowntimerouter { top: 9px; If you are seeing a line from a tail drag it is more likely a white-footed mouse than a house mouse. margin-top: 0px; margin: 0 0 10px 16px; } We came across many similar tracks.I was a bit baffled by the rabbit tracks and which direction that they traveled. #Feed1 ul { height: 30px; , .nocomments } /* End Header */ margin: 10px 20px 0px 20px; Keep your eyes peeled for these runways! } } Mice tend to make a four-print hopping track pattern with a distinct tail drag in the snow whereas voles characteristically make a two-print pattern with no tail drag when they jump along through the snow. { padding-left: 30px; Tracks of a coyote (on left) and a domestic dog on right. If the bird left its mark first, who could blame a visitor for wanting to investigate this beauty of a wildlife snow print left behind at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Snow is ephemeral and constantly changing so impressions can easily get distorted as the snow melts or sublimates, or tracks fill in with drifting snow, or get covered by debris and other tracks. color: #fd6969; For sure! 3. width: 180px; 1. House cat. break; padding: 0; Jake's Bones .dsq-avatar. In the Rockies, the animals doing this were loping, bounding, or trotting. They are hoppers and leave a pair of prints approximately 2-2.5 long. background-color: #000; These tiny tracks have four toes on the front feet and five on the back. Some toes and the webs may not be visible. Know where you are and what could be there. background:none; margin-right: auto -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 0px; } Are you snow hiking amid the Engelmann spruce and sub-alpine fir deep in a coniferous sub-alpine forest, a recently burned forest with young lodgepole pine emerging, or cross-country skiing through an open sub-alpine larch forest with its needle-less trees?