Memorial Day Weekend Hike

Hi furrends!  I did the most pawsome Memorial Day weekend hike in Noo York full of rawks and falling waters and seeniks so I just has to show you.

Comes along and let's get started.

This was a furry pretty forest with lots of rawks and the trail went up and up and up and up....

So we hads to take lots of breaks.  Mom was a huffin' and a puffin', BOL!

I can jumps the logs early on but later in the hike when I gets tired mom has to help me with my lifting harness or I falls flat on my snooter :(

Look how steep down it do be to the falling waters way down there.

We finally got close enuff to the waters fur me to wet my furs.  Ahhhhhh.

OK now you has to close your eyeballs coz mom be doing the hiker striptease.  She got really hot with all the climbing and I dunno why she do not get in the waters with  me.  Instead she be taking her long britches off and putting shorts on.  OK, she be done, you can open you eyeballs now.

Time fur anudder break.  (Note the skeery white legs we can now all see for the furst time this year. Skeery.)  Anyways, as you can see, I is clearly asking fur my chickun jerkey while avoiding the glare of the skeery white legs.

Wah lah.

We can takes our break in the middle of the trail coz there be nobuddy else around.

Now let's get going again.

At the top after climbing fur THREE miles I had to put mom on the walking string coz we be coming to the seeniks where there be lots of peeps coz they can drive their cars up.

See, cars and peeps and dogs all ofur the place.

Check out this rawk!

And here we has the seeniks.  Wowser!

Hey!  Peeps be crashing my seeniks!  Let's move on to anudder place.

Me and mom has been here before so we knows seekrit places and there be nobuddy here at this seenik.

We leaved them all behind ofur there, BOL.

The peeps is still there as we be heading back down.

More peeps and more dogs going up.

We stopped at the visitor center fur a last break and fur mom to put some litter in that green recycling bin ofur there.  We picked it up at the seeniks GRRRRRRR.

And sumbuddy did not pick up their dog poo.  GRRRRR  We cleaned it up coz udderwise they stop allowing dogs at these places and it be all the peeps fault.  They should stop allowing litter bugs and peeps what cannot pick up their dog poos.

Ahhh, back into the woods where there be no crowds of peeps and litterbugs.

I be feeling the need fur some fur wetting again.  See, I is getting tired.  It be a lot of hiking fur a 13-year-old Shawnee!  At least it all be downhill now back to the hikemobile.

Sweet!

I do beleef the waters be sizzling as I get my furs wet.

I could see the Catskill Mountains from the trail going back down.

Almost back at the car.  What a pawsome hike we had!

Sam's Point Reserve, NY - South Gully Trail at EveryTrail

My Book

My new book was just published, fur real.

I is in it, rite there on page 268.

Can you not see me?

This do be my picture in the book.  No fighting in line fur pawtographs, please.

Back to the Mountains

Hey efurrybuddy!  I comes slinking into Blogville with my tail between my legs coz I has been a bad, bad blogger again.  I thought to myself, "Self, let's go on a big mountain hike coz efurrybuddy in Blogville prolly be needed a seenik fix then they won't GRRRR and HISSSSS at me fur being gone so long."  Good idea, no?  I knows I be needing me some seeniks after this long, cold winter.  I still hiked through that icky winter but not in the mountains coz there be too much snow.

So I went to Noo York to the Shawangunk Ridge.

We hads to climb up to get to the seeniks.

I hiked on the Long Path and it do be long coz you can hikes from Noo Joisey all the way up into Noo York on it!  But I is not hiking all if it.  Just a small pawt.

It do be getting rawky up at the top.

I is sniffing out some seeniks.

You with me mom?

I is in my element here.  No Arthur Itis be holding me back today.

That mom, such a slow pokie, she is.  I always has to wait on her.

Now we bees getting to some serious seeniks.

There do be one big problem.  I is supposed to be seeing the Catskill Mountains from here but see those clouds way ofur yonder?  They do be hiding the Catskills from me, GRRRRRRR.

Here do be what we could see of the Catskills biggified.

Break time!

Mom gibs me a Deramaxx at night afore hiking and when we is done with the hardest pawt of the hike I gets two Tramadol pills in case I is hasing any pain from that Arthur Itis.  Mom takes the Advils coz she IS hasing pains, LOL.

All rested and reddy to move along.

Wowser, a big rawk.

Pawing my way through Spring in the valley.

Of course, it would not be a proper hike without fur wetting, ahhhhhhhh.

Wordless Wednesday

45 Miles of Hiking

Oh. Hai.  I comes slinking into Blogville with my ears back and my tail between my legs coz I has been a bad, bad, bad Blogville resident.  I has not falled off a cliff or nuttin.  We just gets so bizzy around here and when it comes time to do my bloggie, we is just too tuckered out.  And now I see I was last here in the beginning of December.  Last year!  O. M. D.

So you all has prolly heard we is buried in snow ofur here in the Northeast and it be true, we is.  Snow and ice.  Snow with ice.  Snow what is now ice.  Fur the first time efur in my life mom had to chisel me at path and a potty patch coz I could not gets through the frozened snow what is now my yard.  Mom tried to make me a spot closer to the house but I sayed no, I want MY potty spot out in the BACK of my yard so start digging or I be holding it furefur.  And she did.

My potty patch and path.  Skooze me now,  I has to use it.

So, we has actually been able to find places to hike in between snow storms.  When the snow be deeper down south, we go north.  When the snow be deeper up north, we go south.  We always managed to get our hike in the day before a big snow storm and you all knows, we has had many of those snow storms.  I put togedder a video with some pictures of the hikes I did since I was last here.  Can you beleef I has hiked over 45 miles since then?  Yup, Arthur Itis and all, I can still do it.  And I be turning 13 any day now but we isn't sure which day.  So here it do be, 45 miles of hiking.