The Annual Fall Catskill Hike - Hike #1

Here it be furrends, coz I knows yous has been waiting with bacon breath fur it - my ANNUAL FALL CATSKILL HIKE!  WOOWOOWOOWOOWOO!  But it gets even better - you gets two, yes two seenik hikes fur the price of one!  I did TWO hikes yesterday fur a total of 9 miles and I is bopping around here like a youngster today while Mom is all like "Oooo, owie, ouch, yow..." efurry time she gets up out of her chair.  Pawthetic, I tells you.  So grab a snack and a bowl of water and gets comfy coz here we go...

From where we parked the hikemobile we hads to walk up the road a bit to the trail head up ahead.

This little guy wanted to race me, BOL.

Here I is at the trail head.

We has to sign in at the register up ahead in case we gets lost or sumpin so they knows where to look fur us.

Now up, up, up we goes.

I cannot bear to see mom a huffin' and a puffin' up the mountain.  She say it be coz she put on too many layers.

I waits patiently while mom does the hiker striptease.  In the middle of the trail.  Embarrassing.

OK, now that mom has her unnerbritches and stuffs off, we can move upward once more.

We commed out on this mountain meadow with some stuffs.  It be some gizmos that the weather talkers use so they know what to talk about the weather.  I say it be furry sunny, dry and pritty up here and I did not need any gizmos fur that.

A little more away and you can see the mountains better.

Here we comes to Snake Pond on the mountain.

I do not sniff any snakes here.

But wowser, look at the seenik I found and the words!  That be the reservoir down below where we parked the hikemobile.

I say Happy Break Time Fur Me.

Then we went on higher up the mountain were there was big rawks and stuffs.

The trees be all nekkid up here already.

Heading back down by the big rawks.

I wanted to stop by that Snake Pond again on the way back down.

Fur anudder break.

And a seenik nap.

Imagine finding a CATerpillar in the CATskills!

One last look at the seenik before finishing Hike #1.

We signed back out at the trail register (see how mom writed "+1 dog?" That be me!).

Back at the hikemobile, mom got our lunch out of the cooler.  I got chickun baby food on my kibble!  DROOL!

We had lunch down by the reservoir.

Now on to Hike #2.  Stay tooned.

Fugitives, Bears and Bees

OK, so you all knows they has not founded that skeery dude yet what is holed up in the forest where I want to hike in Pencilvania.  Then you heard about the bear attack last Sunday here in Noo Joisey.  Do you know the boy was hiking there at that same place with a furrend?  They got lost on their way so they was late getting there (thank dogness) and a mile in on the trail the pawlice stopped them asking if they seened the missing hiker not knowing what the most tragic outcome of that was until the next day when they seened it in the news.  So where to hike?  Hows about the safety of Noo York?  I mean there is that murderer what was holed up in the one park from deading his daughter-in-law but they nefur founded him and he be long gone so I say, let's go hiking in Noo York.

Whoa!  Hold your leashes!  Say what?!?!?!?  OK, so mom decided that since it be 7:30 in the morning and 51 degrees outside, that it be too cold fur the bees to be swarming and that they be sound asleep still so we could tiptoe through but not go that way coming back when it be warm out and the bees be awake.  It bees a plan!

The bees, they drank all the falling waters, boo!

OK, so we made it off the bee trail safely and did not wake up the bees so now I bees climbing up and up and up.

I climbed above the clouds!  See ofur there, the valley be full of clouds.

And we gots some pritty colors up here, no?

There is those Catskill mountains far, far away.  We be going their fur our annual fall foliage hike pritty soonly.

There be one of those valley clouds peeking up behind me.

Time fur a drink coz it be getting warm out and I had no fur wetting waters in the creeks.

I likes taking me a break where I can see those Catskill mountains.

Come and join me, mom.

OK, we gots to head back now.

You sees that lump up high in the middle on the horizon?  That be High Point monument in Noo Joisey.  I can sees it all the way from Noo York.

So I has to walkie back to the car on the road since those bees bees awake now.  Boring.

I was hawt so mom had to soak my pawsies in my water bowl.  Ahhhhhhh.

Hiking with a Fugitive

Well almost!  I is sure you all has heard about this skeery dude:

Well, we knowed this happened in Northeast Pencilvania but we wasn't paying attention to exactly where.  When mom turned the television on last Friday night and we heard "Blooming Grove, Pencilvania" when the news peeps was talking about this, me and mom sayed "Whoa there, say what?!?!?!"  Then they sayed they be huntin' fur this skeery dude around Canadensis, PA so we looked that up to see how close it be to where we was going to be hiking on Sunday.

Like 3 miles away - YIKES!

 I mean on one hike recently me and mom was taking a break off the trail and a man came crashing through the woods towards us and I did snarly face and showed him my teefs.  I nefur do that when we see udder hikers on the trail but this dude creeped me out and I skeered him off.  But this one in Pencilvania, he has big guns and I don't think my snarly face be enuff pawtection.  So we hads to come up with a new hike.

So we finds us anudder hike about lots farther away.

No creepy skeery dudes here.

Just a skeery bridge and I wanted to go through the water but the banks was too steep so I had to jump up on the skeery bridge.  Mom made me :(

Fall colors in the pipeline cat.

Fur wetting!

We seened lots of bear poo and coyote poo but no bears or coyotes.

Getting ready to cross ofur.  Mom had to put her water walking shoes on coz she could not jump over without going SPLAT!

But I gots chickun jerkey while mom was putting her hiking shoes back on.

You can takes your time if'n I can has more chicken jerkey.

No skeery dudes, no bears, no coyotes.

Rawk art - kinda creepy.  But mebbe I can find some pee mail on it.  No, no pee mail.

Here I is at a seenik.

Fall in the Poke-a-Nose.

Back to our car safe and sound.

They still has not catched that skeery dude.  But I hear they has some of my kin out there tracking him and they be getting closer.