You know you're a bit spoiled if you go from, "Oh please, God, let me see some large wildlife on this hike that isn't a deer!" to "Why couldn't this moose show up when the lighting was better?"
This youngster with furry antlers emerged at a pretty high altitude in the mountains and came so close, in fact, that I had to remove my telephoto lens and use a regular macro portrait lens to photograph him. And a gentle giant he was, though I backed away every time he came closer, having been charged by mountain goats before.
