06-02-2023, 12:22 PM
Cuzco is legendary. No, Cuzco is LEGENDARY. A few weeks ago I was walking Pongo around Lake Beckwith, which was the lake where we took Cuzco walking almost every day when we lived in Colorado City. Someone stopped me and asked about the one-horned goat. I told them he died six years ago of old age. I hadn't walked Cuzco down there for over 12 years. And then just today Phil was out hiking on the Greenhorn trail when a family came up. They aren't local but they own a vacation cabin in Rye. Phil didn't have a goat with him today, but he started talking to the family and mentioned his goats. They started exclaiming about how they once met a goat on that very trail about ten years earlier. A goat with one horn. The daughter, who is now in college, said, "And his name was Cuzco!" Phil told them he was Cuzco's owner and they were so excited. They still have the photo they took of Cuzco that day. They had to take a photo because they said the people back home wouldn't believe them about a packgoat hiking in the mountains and following his owner without a lead. Good ol' Cuzco. It's amazing that people still remember him, though he's been gone all these years!