A WINTERS DAY WALK
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:33 pmWe've been having sort of a wimpy winter here this year and even lost our snow over the New Years weekend. Now of course winter is back and the snow is beginning to add up little by little. So before it gets too deep to enjoy walking back in the woods, come along on a "Winters Day Walk" with the girls and I.
We got our gear on, me in my jacket, gloves, wool pants, hat and boots and them in their coats. I decided to put their coats on to keep them a bit drier in this heavy falling wet snow. I think they felt it was ridiculous, but went along with it anyway.
As we started out, I glance up and see the darker lake effect snow clouds scudding across the sky. A sure sign of more snow to come.
Then we head across the highway here and down a snow covered dirt road to another road and onto a two track trail, which of course now, is an all white trail
We walk along listenng to to the silence and through the softly falling snow. Stopping here and there for the girls to investigate some interesting smells. And of course Sassy is always ahead, always alert, always looking for something to check out
Tessa has discovered something interesting on this small pine tree and Sassy moved in to investigate it too.
We follow our two track trail and eventually come out on to Snowmobile Trail #4, a connector trail in the area's snowmobile trail system. No one has even been down it yet since the snow started falling. But before long they will.
As we walk along we come to a little frozen pond off the trail. It is snowing hard and looks like fog.
We notice how the snow covers and sculpts things. A deadfall
and an old stump still rotting away from the logging days of long ago
And this standing tree
And how it lays on the branches of the pines and spruce
We cross back across the highway again and on our way home stop to investigate some old logging railroad beds. Here, Sassy is on her way downslope from the top of one of them. You can see the higher area above her especially on the left where the trees are higher. There is a set of twin logging railiroad beds runnning through the woods just a ways behind my house. Left from the logging days of the late 1880's-90's.
By this time we have almost ended our walk and Tessa is waiting patiently for Sassy and I to quit exploring and head for home. 2 hours and a bit over two miles and we are home. Hope you enjoyed our little "Winters Day Walk". We sure did
We got our gear on, me in my jacket, gloves, wool pants, hat and boots and them in their coats. I decided to put their coats on to keep them a bit drier in this heavy falling wet snow. I think they felt it was ridiculous, but went along with it anyway.
As we started out, I glance up and see the darker lake effect snow clouds scudding across the sky. A sure sign of more snow to come.
Then we head across the highway here and down a snow covered dirt road to another road and onto a two track trail, which of course now, is an all white trail
We walk along listenng to to the silence and through the softly falling snow. Stopping here and there for the girls to investigate some interesting smells. And of course Sassy is always ahead, always alert, always looking for something to check out
Tessa has discovered something interesting on this small pine tree and Sassy moved in to investigate it too.
We follow our two track trail and eventually come out on to Snowmobile Trail #4, a connector trail in the area's snowmobile trail system. No one has even been down it yet since the snow started falling. But before long they will.
As we walk along we come to a little frozen pond off the trail. It is snowing hard and looks like fog.
We notice how the snow covers and sculpts things. A deadfall
and an old stump still rotting away from the logging days of long ago
And this standing tree
And how it lays on the branches of the pines and spruce
We cross back across the highway again and on our way home stop to investigate some old logging railroad beds. Here, Sassy is on her way downslope from the top of one of them. You can see the higher area above her especially on the left where the trees are higher. There is a set of twin logging railiroad beds runnning through the woods just a ways behind my house. Left from the logging days of the late 1880's-90's.
By this time we have almost ended our walk and Tessa is waiting patiently for Sassy and I to quit exploring and head for home. 2 hours and a bit over two miles and we are home. Hope you enjoyed our little "Winters Day Walk". We sure did
)...Doesn't the wet & cold make the dog's feet freeze? I always think of that when I see the pics of pets in the snow...Here we are (you are...as I'm in Calif. & though it is super cold here (high 20's to low 30's at night), I'm not living in snow....but did before moving here to this state....anyway, what about their feet???? 