Journey is not a morning person (dog). Just like her momma, she loves to sleep in. I am a morning person though and if I am hiking I need to get up at the break of dawn (or earlier). That means Journey needs to get up also (if she is coming with me). Once we get to the trailhead she is excited but getting out of bed is the problem. She does not want to get up! This was the situation we found ourselves in on Black Friday.
It probably didn’t help much that it was very cold. About 33 degrees. Brrr… We arrived at the trailhead. Now Journey was excited. Let’s get on that trail and get warmed up.
The plan was to go to Whiskeytown Falls. Journey has never been to it so this is another one I am re-visiting so I can take her to all these beautiful waterfalls. We saw no one at all there and back so she got to be off-leash for the entire hike. A bit surprising but I guess everyone was out shopping or something. Whiskeytown Falls was the hike where my previous dog Kaya almost went over the waterfall. I was not paying attention to her while I was photographing it and she slipped in the stream and almost went over (thankfully she caught herself just in time). I was paying attention to Journey this time as I photographed the waterfall but there is a railing there now so it would have been hard for her to do the same thing. I’m pretty sure there was no railing when I brought Kaya here. Journey just waited very patiently for me. She is such a great dog.
The upper tier of Whiskeytown Falls is now very ugly and un-photogenic. There is a huge awful branch blocking the waterfall and it is not adding any character to it. Someone needs to cut that thing. Perhaps God will take care of it eventually but it could be a few years. The lower tier is a bit better. I let Journey wander around as I photographed it and I was not paying much attention to her but there was no waterfall she could fall down if she slipped in the creek. We finished photographing and hiked back to the car. It was a cold brisk morning at Whiskeytown Falls.
