Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Hike

We celebrated Martin Luther King's birfday by doing anudder hike since it be a howliday from werk fur mom.  We hiked 10.25 miles today.

Fur fun times birfday celebrashuns the National Park peeples did gib FREE admittances today.  Click here fur udder free days if'n you missed this one.

Thank you park peeples fur letting us in fur FREE!

It woz anudder coldie, coldie day, like 15 degrees in the morning.  It did warm up to 32 but not until the end of our hike.  So we bundled up and off we went.

Who leaked snow into Noo Joisey?  There isn't any at my house.

The pond be frozened.  Brrrrrr.

In the winter we has seeniks when the trees is nekkid.

I wonner if'n Irene or Snowtober did this.

We went to check out the old soldier huts from the Revolution-Airy War.

I think this one mite leak in the snow and rains but it would be nice fur letting sunbeams in.

Dussn't look furry comfy in here.

No, this one do not be comfy either.

We went on a trail by the creek but it woz too cold to get my furs wet.

See, I use the bridges today.

So when we furst got to the park mom stopped at the visitor center and left me in the car to ummm, check out the facilities.  Mom noted there woz a back door to the outside, that you did not has to go inside the visitor center to get to the powdah room.  So when we hiked by the visitor center, mom had to go in AGAIN.  (And to think I can hold it fur a whole hike.)  Anyways, it woz way too cold to leave me outside and our car woz not there this time sooooo, mom snucked me in the BACK DOOR!

Nobuddy else in here.  Pawsome.

A stand rite here and be furry quiet so nobuddy sees me.

WHAAAAAA!  OMD, it flushed all on it's own!  It do be a pawsessed potty!

Potty mishun accomplished undetected so we moved on to Wicks Farm:

This be Wick Farm where the farmer and his fambly lived when the soldiers came to stay here - all 10,000 soldiers!  Well, they stayed in the huts but they cut down the farmer's trees to make those snazzy huts with.

Mom wanted me to gib her a tour of the veggie garden.  BLECH.

Now this floats my water bowl! Drool.

I just like this pikshure.

Anudder icy cold creek wot I cannot go into.

Please sunbeams, make the water warm.

This be a road that the soldiers builded like ofur 200 years ago.

It goes to a seenik where the soldiers could watch fur enemies so they didn't get the bitey put on them.

OK, well that woz about it.  Just had my dinner and going down fur a nap.  Bye.

Dress Your Pet Up Day Hike

Did you know today be Dress Your Pet Up Day?  I woz dressed to impress.  Look at me with all matchy colors. I did wear my insoolated vest today coz it be COLD and WINDY out even too cold with my unnercoats, or so mom thought.

See how nice I match?  Mom howefur, oh my...  She rilly should get some matchy hiking stuffs to dress up in.  She looks like a box of Crayola Crayons.  So embarrassing...

And I hasn't even started on the "unmenshonabulls".  I will spare you.

So today we hiked in Noo York at Nyack Beach State Park, Hook Mountain State Park and Rockland Lake State Park - it be 3 parks wot goes from one to the udder and we hiked in all 3.  The hike do turn out to be a little longer than wot we eggspected - 12.6 miles!  The furst 4 miles woz on the easy peasy bike trail along the Hudson River.

All kinds of signs fur hoomans to read and all kinds of pee-mail fur dogs to sniff.

No poo bags fur me, thank you.  I is back to not pooing on hikes and 'sides, we bring our own, just in case I change my mind.

We woz at the bottom of BIG cliffs.  Coming back we is going to be up high atop the cliffs!

♫ Love Boat soon will be making another run ♫ The Love Boat promises something for everyone...♫ (That be speshull fur Puddles.)

In case any of you is wonnering, no I duss not swim in the Hudson River - ACK!  Mom say GROSS, GROSS, GROSS dirty polooted waters and swimming in it do be strictly pawhibitted, per mom.  Sides, it be CRAZEE cold today.  BRRRR.

Noo furrends incoming!

Our tails is going so fast they be all blurry.

Howdy do?  Let's has fun times and PLAY!

So after fun times we sayed good bye and went on with our hike.  Then we saw a bench on the side of the trail wot looked new so we went ofur to take a look.

Mom rememmered hearing about this in the news last year, almost eggzaktly 1 year ago, it woz February 2011 when a hiker with her dog went missing but we did not know where it happened coz we heard different stories.  Well this do be the spot.  They woz up high on the cliff and falled off.  So furry sad.  Here be the news story if'n you want to read it.

It woz icy when Colleen and Jemma falled off the cliff ahind the bench.

We will be up top where they falled off later but no worries, it do not be snowy and icy today and we is going to be furry furry most careful coz Colleen and Jemma will be on our minds.

But just around the bend from the bench, OMD, OMD, OMD, big eggsitements!  Can you tell wot this be?

It do be a bald eagle!  Yowzer!  There woz lots of them.  We either seened 4 of them or the same one 4 times, we isn't sure. 

Then we left the easy peasy bike trail.  Let the real hiking begin!

We heared sumpin and OMD, look, a TRAIN be unner us!  The hiking trail woz atop a tunnel wot a train commed out of!

Climbing up high above the Hudson River.

Down there be that easy peasy bike path we woz on afore.

Did I tell you how cold it do be?  The few drops of water wot stayed in my water bowl frozed into ICE!

Can I haz ice water pawlese?

This do be where Colleen and Jemma falled off the cliff on the ice.  I did stay far back from the edge.  Mom could see the bench down below so that is how we knowed this be the spot.

This be a different place but there be lots of danger places along the cliff and I put mom on my magical walking string fur safety.

There be that teeny tiny bike path way down there where we woz earlier.

I think that be the last mountain we has to climb up ahead.

Did I menshun how cold it be?  This be a mud puddull.

The mud puddull biggified.

From these danger cliffs we can see the Tappanzee Bridge wot we drive across lots to go hiking on the udder side.

We found anudder old cemetery.  This grave be from a little two-legger wot only be 9 months old.  He did die in 1845 but sumbuddy be putting toys and stuffies on his grave still!

So after the hike we got in the car and left the park.  We woz on a road with cars and there woz this man with his dog not on a leash.  Even though I is free range while hiking in the woods, I ALWAYS has my walking string engaged on roads and when there be cars around.  Well, no sooner did mom think to herself wot a doodyhead that dog's dad was being then the dog RUNNED SMACK IN FRONT OF OUR CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Mom slammed on the brakes super hard and stopped in the nick of time.  She rolled down her window and went rabid dog CRAZEE on that man.  OMD, did she rip him up one side and down the udder.  He just kept saying he woz sorry.  Mom told him to just get the dog on a leash NOW.  Doodyhead!

Monday Hike and the Chiropractor

It woz a bootieous day and I had a chiropractor appointment so mom taked half a day vaycayshun so we could do a little hike afore my appointment.  This woz a new trail we went to check out just 15 minits from my chiropractor.

There woz the usual trails...

... and rawks to climb... (wating fur slowpoke mom)

... ginormous rawks...

... a rawk tunnel... (common in, mom, no bears in here)

... and seeniks!

So that be our little 3 mile hike fur today.  I is doing so well with the chiropractor re-a-line-ments that I dussn't has to go back fur 3 weeks now.   No stiffies no more!  Me and Dixie is even doing bitey face and paw thwocking at each udder and we hasn't done that in a long time.

Some of you asked about if'n I had to has a baf yesterday after playing swamp monstah.  I is pleased to repawt that due to mom's splitting head-ake, she woz not in the baf gibbing kinda mood (YAY!) so I had a bucket baf.  That be where mom fills up a bucket with warm water and just a drop or two of stinky shampoo (hey, it makes her happy) then I has to stick one paw at a time in so each leg has a turn getting washed.  Then my belleh gets washed with a washrag.  I dussn't mind a bucket baf, so much better than a real baf. Shudder.