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

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

truly beautiful scenery. very envious.

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.

Cracking pictures as usual

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

That's the life! :goodjob:

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

ovenpaa wrote: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.

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.

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

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!