It's vacation time! Alisa is here and we are riding everyday. We started up Underwood. As usual it was a good time; however, the girls were filled with burrs. Millions of them! Then we tried a new place in the Marble Mountain Wilderness: Stanshaw Trailhead. It took us three hours to trailer up there and we could only ride a couples of miles due to large, insurmountable trees in the way and no way around them. It was disappointing.
The next day we drove to the Trinity Alps Wilderness: Swift Creek Trailhead. Now we have been here before, but we had decided to ride into Granite Lake. I guess we should have paid attention to the name of it. There were lots of rocks. It was a five mile trail through some pretty stuff, but we climbed two thousand feet through a lot of granite rocks. Of course all the boys did really well and so did the girls.
Before we left the trailhead, some "eye candy" as Alisa called them, insulted our babies. First they asked if they were Portuguese Water Dogs, but after we told them poodles, they turned up their noses to us and dismissed us, saying the dogs were "Foo-Foo dogs" with "foo-foo haircuts"!!! We could show them a little foo-foo upside the head. After all they were the ones who picked up their cow dog and put him back in the truck when they saw our four running to greet them.
Later on we met some hikers who Lynn overheard saying to his family, "Wow! Three French Poodles in the wilderness! Who would've thought?" Ha! Foo-foo dogs my foot.
Wednesday was a day off for rest, but we'll be back at it tomorrow. It's raining right now, so the world will be fresh and clean in the morning.
Gene keeps laughing about the poodles in the wilderness comment; he agrees with the guy and says the last kind of dog anyone would expect would be a foo-foo poodle.
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