We have been so busy for the last couple of months with the shop that we haven't had time to take a single hike. We changed that today by taking a short hike at Strawberry Creek in Arnold. Of course, the Hound Dog was ready to go, and we even coaxed Eli into it.
We were all excited to try out our new hiking kicks, too. The Hound Dog stuck with his original equipment all-paw drive.
Remi is all over the place on hikes. His extra sensitive sniffer takes him in all directions the entire time. And now that he weighs in at 80 pounds, you kind of just have to go with it.
The otherwise blissful wilderness is interrupted by series of power line towers. Which are kind of cool in their own way. I continue to resist my compulsion to climb one.
The one thing I wanted to visit again on this hike was the small muddy pond. Remi resisted the urge to jump in. I'm very thankful for that.
Toward the end of the hike, Remi caught the scent of something. He pulled poor Eli down the trail at a full run. It was a deer, whose tracks we had just begun to see in the soft dirt. Sorry big guy, we couldn't let you go after it.
And one last photo, a selfie, courtesy of a tree stump just close enough for me to set the timer. Let's hope for more hiking days in 2021!
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