A Beatiful Saturday Hike

Finally a beautiful day. The weather forecast showed a high of 57 degrees today, so me and the puppies seized this opportunity to get out of the house for a few hours. I've been a horrible puppy mom and haven't taken them anywhere in 6 weeks due to work and bad weather. And to be honest with you, all this bad weather has made me into somewhat of a recluse. I horrible habit I am ridding myself of ASAP. I wish that I was able to get home before it got dark in the evenings so that I could take dogs out more and even go for a run. But with it getting dark at 4:30 or 5:00pm it really puts a damper on things. That to will change in near future though.

 

For our outing today, we headed over to Jeffrey's company area for a little isolation and a good hike.  Although there are plenty of doggie parks locally, I opt to take them to this desolate little hiking area behind Jeffrey's company. This way I don't have to worry about trying to corral two dogs by myself... I just let them off their leashes and let them run free. 

 

I had to bribe them to take a quick picture with me. (also wanted to include the beautiful background)

 

 

Gretel is beginning to plump up, so this little hike has some great hill workouts for her. Poor thing is usually exhausted by the time were up the first hill. To her credit though, the first hill is the toughest and longest with it's false summit.

 

Even thought the weather was nice, there is still quite a bit of snow on the ground in the shaded areas. I was hoping that it was all going to be melted and/or dry so that I wouldn't have to deal with muddy dogs. But I was not so fortunate in that regard. I tried to entice Berkley in a game of ball, but he wasn't having any of it. It doesn't matter how many times I bring them to this same spot, they both are so focused on their surroundings that they don't want to play. Just hike, sniff and potty. Ohh the simplest life of doggies.

I should have thought it through a little better in my planning and brought some towels.. Halfway through this hike and  their paws and my shoes were all caked in nasty mud.

With our gummed up feet, I got both of them running around in parking lot. Even got Berkley to play fetch with his new toy that Grammy got him for Christmas.  I think the toy was a big hit and all that running helped get a little of the mud of both of their feet. Should have had more forethought to take a picture of our nasty muddy feet!!

 

Thanks again Grammy for this ball catapult!!  After all the fun and excitement ended, we drove back to the house to I could begin the process of scrubbing down the dogs, the car and myself.

 

 

Overall it was a great way to spend our Saturday.. a little exercise and getting out of house! We are looking forward to more hiking adventures in a new place next weekend. (Weather permitting of course)