Going to Sam's

Well furrends, we finally made it to Sam's Point Preserve in Noo York. Mom had to wate until the boy (and his gurlfurrend, the gurl) could come along. Mom thought she would need help with ME - can't imagine why.  Well, sit tight and see if you can figger it out.

So furst we had to swing by and pick up the boy and the girl. Look wot we seened on the way:

It woz seben oclocks in the morning and as you can see by the sign on the door, they woz closed.  I woz majorly bummed until the boy, OMD, "axidentally" dropped some of his Dunkin Donuts bacon, egg and cheese bagel rite in front of me. Oh, my lucky day!

So of course I did not mind wating on the boy and the gurl to get started on our hike.

Almost rite away there woz seeniks:

Then we commed to Sam's Point.

The gurl, the boy and me at the Sam's Point seenik.

Then we descended into - the ICE CAVES!

Creepy - I has to keep a close eye on mom, the boy and the gurl.

See, the boy be furry skeered and I lead him through safely.

It be OK gurl and boy, just follow me..... shudder...

Ummm, mom, you go furst and I turn on my laser eyes, k?

OMD, we made it! I see sunbeams...

...and, um, wot is this?

You think ME is going up THAT?

I knows the suspenshun is just killing you so I put togedder this little thriller suspenshun moovie fur you.  I dussn't know why the hoomans thought this be a comedy.

So sorry I plowed you ofur, gurl.

So the when we woz done with the ice caves, a whole swarm of little two-leggers in yellow shirts wot looked like bumble bees woz heading to the ice caves.  The one little two-legger sayed "Are we going to the ice cream caves?" and we all BOL'd coz there be no ice CREAM in those caves.  There is not even any ICE right now.  How will those two-leggers efur make it through the skeery caves without ME?

So on we went to the waterfalls. The trail to the waterfalls woz seeniks all the way!

At the top of the waterfalls I met a noo furrend:

"Did you has to help your hoomans through those skeery ice caves, too?"

The Waterfalls

Then we went on anudder trail that was almost all seeniks the whole way.  I woz on seenik overload!

This trail taked us to High Point where we could see the Catskill Mountains.  Me and mom be going there on Monday coz she taked off werk so we could has a bonus hike in this bootiful streak of bootiful wevver we be hasing afore it be all gone. And afore the hunters come into the woods next weekend.

So after that the boy and the gurl went back to the car (coz they be tired so 9 miles woz all they could do - me and mom did 10.5 miles) and me and mom went to Indian Rock.

Here I be at Indian Rock.

Then there woz a lake where I could kewl my paws and furs off on the way back. It woz hawt coz all the trees is tiny there so I woz in the sunbeams most of the time with almost no shades.

Then rite afore the end of the hike woz these old berry picker shacks.

Peeples used to come live in them so they could pick blooberries (BLECH) to make green papers.

I think the berry pickers furgotted they shoos.

On the way home the boy complaned I did not gib him enuff space to sit. I think I woz quite generous with gibbing up part of MY seat, no?

After all, I hiked farther and needed more resting space.

Back to the Pyramid

Rain, rain, rain and more rain! As you all knows, here in the northeast we duss not has any room fur any more rain.  Go to Texas, pawlese!  Anyways, where to hike with all this rain?  Saturday nite mom had gone to buy noo waterproof hiking shoes. I think she should has buyed herself flippers and a snorkel.  So anyway, we decided to recycle a cuppull of hikes wot we had done a cuppull of years ago in the snow - this one and this one togedder coz they be rite next to each udder.  It gibbed us a hike of 11 miles.

Furst we commed to the Taylortown Reservoir wot woz kinda creepy with the steams and stuff coming up off the waters.  (It went from hawt to cold here in one day, that be why efurrything be steamy.)

Then I seened two white spots on the water.  Upon closer inspekshuns, I seened they be swans doing their morning grooming.

There be some rawk climbing up to the top of Pyramid Mountain... (Mom did fall down on the slickery rawk and scraped her knee but she be OK.  Durned rain!)

At the top there be a seenik:

Here be the seenik biggified - it do be that Noo York City skyline again.

Then we commed to Lucy's Overlook:

All of a sudden mom sayed "STAY!"  So I frozed and gess wot, the chipmunkey wot woz running away from us frozed, too!  He lissened to mom, BOL!  Mom got his pikshure and that do be furry hard coz they be so fast but he stayed there a long time till mom woz finished and told him he could go.

Here I be at the famuss Tripod Rock - this big rawks sits atop 3 little rawks. If'n it falled down, I would has been skwished.

And here be Whale Head Rock:

But I think it look more like a sea turtle head, no?

If'n Cokie Cola grows on trees, can chickun jerkey grow on trees, too?

So here be where things get interesting.  The trail be flooded.

This whole field above was unner water and we had to go rite through it to follow the trail.  Mom thought she woz stepping on ground but it woz water and she went in with her noo waterproof hiking shoes wot holds water in furry well when they FILL UP with water, BOL!  So after we got out of that mom had to sit down, drain her shoos out and change sawks.  My paws just drip dried.

Coming up on Kakeout Reservoir

Here be Kakeout Reservoir

OMD, this tree do be nomming the sign!

And I leave you with a little bit of fall wot we founded. There woz not much coz the leaves what had done the magic color change woz all knocked down by all the rain.