There's Bear In Those Woods

We haven't done a lot of our usual walking out in Sultan since we got Kia. For one the mosquitoes and biting flies have been horrible the last few weeks which is really not a fun time for us or the dogs. But there is another reason we have be doing other closer in walks...

Here is why...

Bear! We have had a lot of bear in our neighborhood trail we do and from the scat on the Sultan trails, large bear scat and small/baby bear scat, we have decided to take a hiatus from our usual morning walk with the crew.

We did do one quick walk though with Kia but we kept it short and stayed on the service road where we had, and ant bear had, plenty of opportunity to see each other. We didn't see any bear this day however and although they are awesome creatures, it was fine if we missed one another.

You can see in this video how Kia goes right toward the rocks to get over the stream but she gets some help from foster day to get across. Jenny just goes for it, she has done this many times.

Here you can see how much visibility we had, and we made sure to do a lot of talking and making noise to let any bear in the area know we were here. There were no issues though.

LOL, Kia was having a blast.

She loves to explore and that is one of the things we just adore about her. Tim is being brave to get up on this contraption.

Love this!

She had to check off the main trail too, here she is sniffing the end of a small fallen tree. Maybe she smells bear!

She is always thinking if she gives eye contact that she will get a treat. We have taught her too well maybe?

Behind this small dam is a little lake that has made it into a few past blog posts. This is the water for the small town of Sultan. There was water this day but I am sure in just a week's time there is very little to no water coming off the waterfall, we just haven't had any rain and we didn't get enough snow melt to have this run into the summer like it does a lot of the time. I suppose they will have to release extra water from the bigger dam further up for the town to have what it needs.

This is the lake that is created from the small dam, it was low this day. It is really a pretty little place to be.

I picked a few Salmon Berries and Kia thought they were quite tasty!

Rounding back we took the service road out to the main paved road in. Kia checks out some of the equipment that is in the area.

And the little sweetie was crashed out by the time we got out to the main road. Kia in her crate in the back seat. She had a fun adventure to dream about.