Cold Day Hiking

Even tho the wevver peeples sayed it woz going to be furry cold and windy on Sunday, me and mom decided if'n we hiked way down in a gorge, we would not get frozened by the wind becoz it would not be able to reach us.  Brilliant!  But I wore my new ofurcoat just in case to keep my unnercoats warm.  Mom had to put on eggstra unnercoats. 

So at my house we nefur got the snow we woz supposed to get but this hike woz only 45 minits away from my house and OMD, they has some snow!  Check out wot the cold snow and winds did to my water bottle!

Brrrr.  My water bottle had an ofurcoat on too but it got frozened and mom had to break thru the icy sickulls to pour me a drink of ice cold water!

I found sumpin furry interesting ofur here...

Nobuddy be home but I wonner who lives here?

Skooze me, I is reading pee mail, but this is supposed to be a seenik of Solitude Lake and Dam but, the waters has been leaked out and the falling waters of the dam be shut off coz they is doing construkshuns on the dam.  Wowser, wot an ugly seenik!  (All the pee mails agree with that assessment.)

We is walking by the ugly dry lake when wot do I see?

Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.  Hey, who duss this look like to you?

So I hurried mom away from there and then wot do I see...

...eggscaped snowmans from Frankie's house!

Finally we made it to the pritty part of the hike along the river in the gorge.  The icy winds did not reach my furs down here.

Later we be going atop that bridge on the Columbia rail trail but now we go unner it.  That bridge woz built in 1891 after the furst wood bridge broked when a freight train went ofur it in 1885.  The bridge, freight train, efurrything went down into the river.  Only one person woz deaded.  You can read the whole story here.

Can you beleef there be a man fishing IN the ICY river?  Brrrrr.  Mom asked him if'n he wozn't frozened and he say no, it feel good in there and we should come on in.  We sayed to him thanks, but no thanks.  Brrrrr.

I is on that rail trail now where the trains used to go in the olden days.  Now it be joggers and bicycles and ME!

The rail tail even has speshul posts fur leaving pee mail on and they even has nummers on them wot say how far to the next pee mail!

Now I is going across that bridge wot I went unner afore.

We only had 2 more miles to go on our hike and it woz only 10 o'clock in the morning coz the hike had been all easy peasy flat so mom asked if'n I wanted to hike ofur to anudder park 2 miles away and grab a map to plan a hike fur anudder day coz they did not has their maps online.  I say "Bring it!"

So we got to that park and decided to do a little hike there anyways while we woz there.  I slipped off the rawk crossing a creek and BRRRRR my paw got cold!

We found some Fred Flintstone rawk chairs in the middle of the woods. Not furry comfy coz they has no stuffins.

The park has an observatory where you can look fur aliens but they woz closed.

Then we commed to a seenik of a reservoir that did not has the waters leaked out of it.

The seenik biggified.

So mom and I started figgering out how many miles we needed to hike to get back to our car and OMD, we made a miscalculashun somewhere.  I mean, I is a dog and I is not eggspected to know math but mom could use a remedial refresher course.  Let me just tell you we needed to head on back coz we had a long, long, long, long, long, long, long way to go.

A long, long, long long, long, long, long way back...

Finally heading back down into the gorge.

The rail trail went by these peeples' house and they had a silly skeery crow.  He not be looking so skeery to me.

I found some more FURniture but it has no stuffins either.

So we finally got back to our car and you will nefur beleef how far we hiked.  SEBENTEEN (yes, 17) miles!

This be wot a Shawnee looks like after hiking sebenteen miles.

Can you beleef I is not stiff or gimpy or nuttin today?  I had a good nite sleep next to the warm radiator in my hidey spot and I is good as new.  Mom do not be stiff or gimpy either.  Thank dogness coz we need our meals served.

The Lemon Squeezer Hike

Well, it be more like the "Mom Squeezer Hike" seeing as she still has not lost those annoyink 10 5 pounds.  I say sharing some of her noms with ME and more hikes would take care of that.  Oh, I furgot, mom dussn't nom meats - well furget about sharing noms. Anyhoo, we will get to the Lemon Squeezer in a minit.  The hike started out on that Appalachian Trail wot we run into efurrywhere but this time it be in Noo York

You mite notice sumpin not rite in my armpit.  Let me biggify it fur you:

It be all healed now, just stained from my slobbers but last weekend my skin be all angry red so I had to lick it and I licked so much I licked a hole rite into my armpit!  So wot duss mom do?  She made me wear THE CONE OF SHAME all week long while she cleaned it and put auntie bionics on it efurry day.  It woz horribull tortures, I tell you.  But I is not licking at it no more so mom put away THE CONE OF SHAME but she keeps checking to be sure I dussn't has slobbers on my furs or I has to wear it again.  So I lay here in my hidey spot saying to myself "No licking the armpit.  No licking the armpit.  No licking the armpit..."

Sorry, I digressed again.  Coz of the trauma.  So anyhoo, mom taked off werk yesterday coz it be 50 degrees and a bootiful day and the wevver peeples sayed this weekend be snowy and horribulls altho rite now, Saturday afternoon, they is changing their minds again so we mite get anudder hike in tomorrow.  We shall see.

We climbed up on this mountain wot has a little bit of seeniks.

On the udder side of the mountain woz this old road wot woz builded in 1905.

Then there woz Island Pond but it woz too cold to get my furs we it in that early in the morning.  No 50 degrees yet.

So I stayed high up to see the pritty pond without getting wet.

Then here I is at the portal to the Lemon Squeezer.

Mom woz futzing with taking pikshures so I went on in without her.

No mom, I is not coming back down into the Lemon Squeezer so you can take a pikshure of me in it.  Take a picture of youself.

Mom stuck in the Lemon Squeezer.

OK, so mom finally unstucked herself from the Lemon Squeezer.  Here at the udder side of the Lemon Squeezer we has opshuns.  The "Easy Way" to the left or strate UP A WALL to the rite.  Which way you think I be choosing?

This be the "Easy Way" - can you imagine how hard the hard way woz?

Here I is way atop the Lemon Squeezer with Island Pond way down there.

Is we going left or is we going rite?  I is confuzzled.  Thank dog mom knows where we be going.

This be Greenwood Mine.  In the olden days they used to bring iron out of there to make stuffs with.  It be full of water now.  I dussn't think any bears be sleeping in there.

Doing the Moon Walk.

I is in Times Square, Noo York.  Fur real coz the rawk say so.

Lots of seeniks atop Hogencamp Mountain.

This be called Ship Rock but I think it look more like the Titanic sinking.

Some more seeniks.

I found a little bit of snow from the last time it snowed.

And some icy sickulls but mom made us move thru furry fast coz you can see on the left big chunks of ice wot melted and falled down - if'n more woz getting reddy to fall they could make us deaded!

Hold on tite coz this be a steep fall down!

Back in 1920 this used to be a big fenced field where peeples put elk from Yellowstone Park but the elk did not like it here and they all died :(

I found our car!

So that woz a big werkout hike up hills and down hills.  Up hills and down hills.  Fur 11.3 miles.  Mebbe mom can fit through the Lemon Squeezer a little better now.

Calling Frankie Furter!

Frankie Furter! Who be in charge of watching your brudder?

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Super Bowl Sunday Hike

Sorry to be so rude and gibing you my backside but impawtant new furrends incoming!

Meet my new furrend Diesel.  He be 8 years old.  We hiked togedder fur a bit while my mom and his dad did yak, yak, yak, yak, yak...

We had a tail-gait pawtay at Blue Mountain Lakes ...

... sniffed some public pee pail...

... and confidenshull pee mail.

We even did some zoomies.

Diesel showed me seeniks at Indian Rawk.

Seenik at Indian Rawk.

Then Diesel and his dad be going anudder way and we sayed good bai.  Wot fun times me and Diesel had!

Here I is at Hemlock Pond.

More Hemlock Pond.

Then I found that Appalachian Trail again.

The Appalachian Trail taked us to Crater Lake.  I woz there afore on the udder side.

So mom rememmered when we hiked this pawticular stretch of the Appalachian Trail afore there be a steep skeery rawk wall wot we needed to go down and she had to yank me, make me fall and catch me assist me in getting down.  So mom woz a little worried that I be gibbing her a hard time about getting me down again but joke be on her coz I went down all by myself ahead of mom!  I showed her!

My route down the skeery rawk wall.

This be a swamp.

This be the road back to our car.  Irene nommed this road up.

So we hiked 12.5 miles today.   This dog should has been werking out with us!