Jack went hiking today

The weather has been horrible this June, and we have not been able to enjoy any of our usual summer activities. However, today we managed to sneak in a hike between thunder storms. We took a trip to the new Nature Conservancy preserve on Moosic Mountain, and checked out one of their lovely trails.

It's a very unique habitat. We usually hike in the woods, but this is a ridge-top heath barren. Nice views, odd landscape of ferns, mountain laurel, and wintergreen mixed with some stunted trees and bogland. Jack had a blast!

Here he is, trotting through the undergrowth:

Waiting for us in a clearing. He's great on hikes: not constantly underfoot, but he never lets us out of his sight.

Here are those ferns:

Jack, stay! Good boy!

Here's a nice view of the barren:

Exploring the woods:

Here's a beautiful Mountain Laurel, at the tail end of its bloom period:

The spring that Jack went sloshing through. I hope he doesn't get sick.

And that Corgi smile:

The mountain view on the way home:

A very nice hike. On the way home we stopped for coffee in town, and Jack got to sit in the square watching the traffic and the kids on bikes. He had just as good a time there as he did in the woods, and now he's sound asleep. Someone asked once here why we all chose a Corgi, and this was exactly why. A wash-and-wear dog who's sturdy enough for hikes, went through the mud and only needed a quick toweling to be spotless, and was just as happy laying on concrete in the downtown as sirens went blazing by as he was running through puddles and rolling in dead things in the woods. Is there a greater dog than a Corgi? I can't imagine one!

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Comment by Geri & Sidney on July 4, 2009 at 12:40pm: Look into Rattlesnake Avoidance Training. I meant to look up where you live but I forgot. We live in Southern California where we have to worry about rattlers. Last summer we decided to have Sidney do rattlesnake avoidance training and it was well worth the cost ($75) and temporary trauma for Sid. The first time he encountered the snake during training, he walked right up to it with no signs of fear or trepidation! Good thing, by the end of the class he avoided them like the plague. We have yet to meet one in "real life" but we do lots of hiking so it's bound to happen sooner or later.If you go to my profile and look up my older blog posts, look for one from July 2008 about the rattlesnake avoidance class for more idea what it was like.

Comment by Beth on July 4, 2009 at 8:22am: Thank you! This hike was short; only about an hour. The weather was threatening. We were on top of a mountain and could hear thunder rumbling, so we did one short trail and left. It's nearby, so we'll be back! I was wondering, though, how Jack might react to a rattlesnake, and that has me a bit leary (it was rocky and open and looked like perfect rattlesnake territory to me). I guess I need to research "snake bite" in case of emergency, huh?