Hopefully it goes better for my health this year. A freak snowstorm the day before hiking took our first hike of the year from a forecasted 52F to well..... about here with the thawed water now frozen into a layer of ice under inches of snow that included hidden ice boulders I started wishing for skis or a sled or a snowboard or just about anything that uses the northern sled breeds in the group.
Today's hike went better aside from the mud, my shoes nearly getting sucked off in the low spots of the giant clay mounds piled in the river washout, and Aiko thought I needed to dip my feet halfway up my shins into the river water with ice on the banks. This wasn't helped by Zami's 90lbs having no issue wandering into deep water if given the option. Personally I preferred staying on the flat rocks that were only an inch submerged but my shoes came out clean again. :lol: If I feel like checking it for editing needs and then taking the time to upload I have a vid of Aiko being Aiko. They found a shrew last hike and while Niji caught it the only one that doesn't have such a soft mouth things tend to escape again is Aiko so she was the one to kill and eat it. Now she won't stop rooting all dried grass piles for shrews. To cover more grass without being told to quit stopping constantly she has been flinging herself through it nose first down the sides of paths. :roll:
Today's hike went better aside from the mud, my shoes nearly getting sucked off in the low spots of the giant clay mounds piled in the river washout, and Aiko thought I needed to dip my feet halfway up my shins into the river water with ice on the banks. This wasn't helped by Zami's 90lbs having no issue wandering into deep water if given the option. Personally I preferred staying on the flat rocks that were only an inch submerged but my shoes came out clean again. :lol: If I feel like checking it for editing needs and then taking the time to upload I have a vid of Aiko being Aiko. They found a shrew last hike and while Niji caught it the only one that doesn't have such a soft mouth things tend to escape again is Aiko so she was the one to kill and eat it. Now she won't stop rooting all dried grass piles for shrews. To cover more grass without being told to quit stopping constantly she has been flinging herself through it nose first down the sides of paths. :roll:
