A moose that apparently lost its footing on steep terrain in Boulder Canyon Monday tumbled off a cliff into a rockslide and ended up breaking both of its back legs.
A video of the fall went up on social media shortly after the giant animal took its tumble. It shows the moose — a young bull — lying crumpled in the middle of Colorado 119. As other vehicles passed it, including the bus from Boulder to Nederland, some passengers couldn’t make out what it was. One ninth grader told her mother a giant boulder had ripped loose from the canyon wall (which is not unheard of).
But something other than the moose stood out in the video — two women who got dangerously close to the animal while crouching near it, trying to comfort it…