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Training, Bonding, and Bliss
Puppies bring revelations. Don’t adopt a new pup if you’d rather not reconsider everything you thought you knew about dogs… and life. Having new energy in the house seems to wring new thoughts, feelings, and revelations from me on a … Continue reading
Posted in the woof pack
Tagged Belgian Malinois, bonding, Catskills, dog training, dogs, dutch shepherd, hiking, rescue dogs, shelter pup
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Soul Ache
“It’s dirty. All the houses have all kinds of shit piled outside and everything is dirty. And the weather isn’t helping.” Grim. Bleak. Gray is my favorite color but the red-brown-gray of Catskills road grit fails to move me, no … Continue reading
Posted in writer's life
Tagged Catskills, parenting, soul, spiritual growth, upstate New York
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Hot Hiking: Yoga Pants Trail Runners Style
Hot yoga is silly. But at least it’s over in an hour or two. Hot hiking – say, for example, taking on 24+ mile trail on the hottest and most humid day so far this summer (temps above 90 in … Continue reading
Posted in Catskilliana, food, Hiking
Tagged Acra Point, Blackhead Mountain, Burnt Knob, Catskills, Escarpment Trail, hiking, Windham High Peak
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No! Leave it! Come!
Based on the photos and stories I post, I suspect that many of my Facebook friends envision me enjoying the woods with my dogs rather like a spritely wood nymph, hopping from rock to rock, blissfully singing songs (Led Zeppelin … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, the woof pack
Tagged Belgian Malinois, Catskills, dog training, hiking, malinois, porcupines
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Our Daily Walks, by Mica
Having cancer and having access to a computer has led me to be a little barkier than usual: I find myself eager to write to you humans and tell you more about what’s on my mind. Maybe it’s just that … Continue reading
Posted in the woof pack
Tagged Catskills, dogs, hiking, malinois, mast cell cancer, nature, outdoors, witch hazel
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Guest post: Melissa on bushwacking
Picture this: a bird’s eye view of the Catskill Park, dotted with hikers scattered around in twos and threes, here and there, scrabbling up and down peaks and swimming through thick prickers and pines all weekend long. And then, Sunday … Continue reading
Slam Dink
WARNING: This post contains all sorts of hikerly jargon and Catskillesque idioms. Apologies up front. Perhaps a glossary is in the offing. Second apology: this is reposted from the ADK HIgh Peaks forum, listed in the Catskill Trip Reports. There: my conscience is clear. Continue reading
Posted in Hiking
Tagged Biurroughs Range, bushwack peaks, Catskills, Cornell, Friday, the Dink, Wittenberg
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