Two Hikes in Two Days

I rilly thought I would has a break from the B&B but it only lasted a short time before we filled up again.  I did manage to get in some hiking fur my Furginia trip training so I will tells you bout that now.  Furstly, we hiked in Noo York on Furiday.

So follow me and off we goes.

We has to climb up this mountain to a seenik.  We doesn't has a bike or skis so we is good.  Paws is allowed.

Not there yet.

How nice that the trail maintainer peeps cut out this step just fur me!  I used to sail ofur these logs like a gazelle but I cannot do it so much any more.

But I can still beat mom to the top so I has to wait on her pokey self.

Wah lah!  The seenik.  We climbed so high that we is above the clouds, BOL!

That be a lake unner that cloud and it just be a cloud of fog ofur the lake.  We is not rilly above the clouds.

We is heading down to that lake now and I hopes that cloud of fog be gone by the time I gets there.

That fog prolly will be gone coz I had to wait like an hour fur mom to take pictures of this spidey.

Unner werks better than ofur fur me.

Hey, a dog could get lost in here!

I see the lake down there!

Yay, the lake!  Now to find a spot where I can get in to get my furs wet.

"Come on in Shawnee!  The water feels nice!"

Thanks fishies, your home do be pawsome!

When we was leaving the lake, I got chased by a SNEK!  Fur real!  Mom yelled (she can yell rilly loud) and the snake ran fur hims life in the udder direction!

That was a nice lake!

So then the next day, on Caturday, mom had to go help with the produce co-op (BLECH!) down by the shore so I went along and waited while mom was bizzy, then we stopped by a park on the Raritan Bay fur a short hike.

It do be like a big litter box fur the kittehs here.

We got on the boardwalk, butt....

... it do still be brokened from when Sandy nommed it last year.

We hads to walk in the litter box where there was good sniffs but I was not allowed to get my furs wet becoz ...

... there be lead pawlootion.  Yikes.

I is gessing that peep cannot read signs or sniff pee mail coz he be out there in the pawlootion with his little two-leggers.

See, I keeped mom on the walking string so she would not go out in the pawlootion and glow in the dark and stuffs.

I did take mom out on the pier ...

... fur some seeniks.

In Training

Well furrends, now that things has quieted down at the B&B and we has found that Deramaxx helps some with Arthur Itis in my knee, I is in training coz, is you reddy fur this....  I is going hiking in Furginia again next month!  Fur real!  I gots my own pawsonal cabin reserved in the Shenandoah Furginia State Park.  I cannot do any crazy rawk climbing or 10+ mile long hikes like I used to so we is keeping the hikes shorter and a little easier fur me.  So I show you yesterday's hike where I is getting in shape fur finding seeniks.

If'n you click on the linkie, a little blue ball starts running around on our track and that be me!
Stering Forest State Park, NY - Wildcat Mountain at EveryTrail

We get to the park in Noo York and mom is all like "BRRRRRRR! COLD!"  Wot cold?  This be pawfect fur my furs.

And we is off!  Gotta get mom moving afore she gets all frozened.

Oh wait, in a minit... pee mail.

Now we I is reddy.

I is liking this moss on my paws - cushy!

I do think we be coming up on a seenik here.

Oh doggie!  Check it out!

That be the Noo York Thruway ofur there and Noo Joisey where I live!

There be nuttin better at a seenik than chickun jerky (but mom missed it with the camera),

butt skritches,

and a soft bed of grass fur my old bones.

OK, break ofur.  We is heading fur that mountain ofur there on the left.

OMD, can you beleef fall do be coming alreddy?

Sumbuddy lost their traction device ofur the winter.  I wonner how they made it out with just one?

So mom woz all SQUEEEE ofur this burd.  This do be an ovenbird and they is called that coz their hidey spots looks like Dutch ovens.

So we has arrived on that udder mountain and my snooter do be telling me a seenik be up ahead.

Yup, sure enuff.

Thank dogness these ants be bizzy hauling their breakfast home so they leave my ...

... chickun jerky alone!

And here do be my bed of grasses.

It do be a bootiful day fur seeniks.

So towards the end of our hike mom made a video of how I is walking with that Arthur Itis in my knee.  Not my normal graceful self, that be fur sure.  But we just be making the bestest of it.