Our weekend hike
Since everyone has shared there weekend adventures I figured I would too...
Today we hiked in the Sangres, hit 10k feet in altitude! It was neat because we hiked by the Buddhist monastery so we *think* we heard them praying and we saw a TM!
We survived with no Mountain Lion attacks too! [There have been a few in this area this summer - one guy was pulled off a mountain bike!]
Here are some pics...
The drive to the trail:
[ignore the bad hair in that one, I am trying to grow it out]
On the trail:
The biggest dandelion we have ever seen - and what Loa had to say about it:
*sniff, sniff*
*CHOMP!*
Some scenery [my ISO was WAY to high on these]:
Kona and his pack [I have decided to take a pic of Kona w/ his pack in every place he packs]:
That's it!
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Today we hiked in the Sangres, hit 10k feet in altitude! It was neat because we hiked by the Buddhist monastery so we *think* we heard them praying and we saw a TM!
We survived with no Mountain Lion attacks too! [There have been a few in this area this summer - one guy was pulled off a mountain bike!]
Here are some pics...
The drive to the trail:
[ignore the bad hair in that one, I am trying to grow it out]
On the trail:
The biggest dandelion we have ever seen - and what Loa had to say about it:
*sniff, sniff*
*CHOMP!*
Some scenery [my ISO was WAY to high on these]:
Kona and his pack [I have decided to take a pic of Kona w/ his pack in every place he packs]:
That's it!
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Comments
I love the "heads out the windows" shots.
Tell more about the TM!
I saw a TM on Sunday too. And 4 Leonbergers :-D!!! We went to the Mediterranean winner 2008 show. Kuma couldn't get in because he only turns 6 months next Sunday, so I went there to see the Leonbergers.
Kona has grown a bunch in the last few weeks, I think he is getting close to full grown - I think his nose / head will just fill out a bit more now. He has really changed, he is a little man now - oh, he lifts his leg to pee now too!
Lani did great on the trail, she is starting to really like hiking. She was not sure of it for a while. She was funny, she spent the entire time hunting butterflies - they would fly out of the grass as we walked through it and she would freak out and try to grab them. It was pretty funny. We really want to start packing her too - but we need to let her mature more first. She and Kona are amazing watch dogs on the trail, its rather comforting w/ all the Mountain Lion attacks around her recently.
As for the TM, it was kinda cool - I tried to get a pic but that dog wasn't having it at all. I started to walk that direction and he did his job very effectively - the warning bark from a TM just makes you stop dead. Anything you were interested in before the bark, after you are like - uh, that's not a good idea, I'll move on...
It was cool tho, he was living with a buddhist man that lived in a small camper at the foot of the trail. The TM was just sitting out front all proud and noble and his master was walking around tending to things in his campsite in his buddhist attire. Really cool! It was very shady (dark) where he was parked so the pics I took didn't come out at all.
Rui - 4 Leonbergers? (!) Must have been a big place! That's cool - did you take some pics? What color was the TM at the show?
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The TM was kind of liver coloured, with yellow markings. Very cute!
Being stupid as only I am I forgot the camera at home, and only took one photo with my cell phone and that is crap.