More Desert stuff

[Chuck]

Sorry but this thread has to stop, I am SO jealous! LOL

Only kidding, great stuff. Nice to see how the other half live..

[stitch303]

truly beautiful scenery. very envious.

[rufrdr]

Some pictures from closer to my house. This area is about a 10 minute drive from my place just inside the national forest land (althought it should probably be listed as a national scrub land). My younger daughter the dog trainer and I took a New Year's day hike in beautiful mild weather. We had our dog gang with us: my two (Australian shepherd dog and border collie/sheltie mix) and her three (two Belgian malinois and a Tibetian terrier) which added up to quite a pack.



Getting there



Checking out the route



Starting out



Down in a draw with a creek and actual trees!



My daughter Marla posing next to a mining claim remnent of some sort along with the dog pack



Some tired dogs headed back to the Jeep.

As you can see it is pretty dry around where I live. We encountered one woman on horseback with two dogs and about 6 mountain bikers, only 3 of which were riding like maniacs on the trail. A good day had by one and all.

[ovenpaa]

Cracking pictures as usual

Tired dogs are good dogs however it does look warm, do you take water for the dogs aswell?

[Chuck]

That's the life! :goodjob:

[Mike357]

Like Scotland but with sunshine :lol: :lol: . Great pics, thank you for posting.

[rufrdr]

Cracking pictures as usual

Tired dogs are good dogs however it does look warm, do you take water for the dogs aswell?

If we're gone more than 5-6 miles then we have water for the dogs as well. This one was only about 5 miles although there was a lot of down and up the hills. We came across one creek which they all got a drink.

[ovenpaa]

England is somewhat wetter than the desert however on a sunny summers day I am always impressed by how the dogs will find water and take advantage of it even if we are carrying water for them. Water from a muddy puddle in infinitely preferable to tap water any day.

[Chuck]

Organic???? When there's no choice a mudy puddle or a stream will do...still alive despte what my old dear said :lol: :lol: :lol: sign01

[rufrdr]

Some pictures from a day trip in 2005. The mission was to find some indian (native American to be P.C.) petroglyphs in the area which we found.








I'm a bit suspicious of the center image in this last petroglyph. Looks too new to me!