Brian Hayden was relaxing and resting with a hat shading his eyes at his favorite outdoor nap spot under a ridgeline tree about 2.5 miles from the Cache Creek trailhead.

It was midafternoon Friday, and the Teton Valley, Idaho, resident needed to get to work, so he awoke from a half-state of sleep and readied for the walk back to his car

About 25 feet away, he estimates, the stationary figure of a canine cutting the skyline drew his gaze.

“I sat up, put my ball cap on and the first thing I thought was, ‘Why is there a big dog right there?’” Hayden said. “I didn’t hear any people.

“And then my eyes opened a little bit more and I’m like, ‘Holy s—, that’s a wolf.’

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Photo by Brian Hayden.