Adventure Pack Rey and Griff led the way by a short distance while they were off leash during our hike at Chautauqua this morning. The wind was blowing pretty hard and the trails were all but empty. Arlo was sporting his fancy, red bandana for the second time. He and Racer ventured into the tall grass a few times - sometimes to do their business, other times just to sniff around a bit. Everyone wanted a drink from the CamelBak when we made a short pit stop. Variety Pack Milo,

Adventure Pack Bear was having some digestive issues today and wasn't particularly playful with Tozai during their off-leash time together. Without her packmates running around, Nelly stayed mellow for the whole hike without any commotion to dance around about. Ruffers kept up with the rest of her packmates when she first went off leash, but started to linger behind when we headed up the lower part of Royal Arch, then took a shortcut between switchbacks to catch up. Variety P

Adventure Pack Imogene, Griff, Arlo, and Racer especially took their times walking through Chautauqua Meadow today. Each of them wanted to stop many times, and whenever one of the started sniffing, everybody else had to check out the area as well. Griff and Imogene didn't wander far when they went off leash. Racer became ravenous for grass at one point and pulled over several times to tear up what she could find, but then her stomach seemed to settle without vomiting. The pac

Adventure Pack Tozai and Bear enjoyed some wrestling around on the trails today, although Bear sometimes just paused and stood tall when he wanted to convey to Tozai that Tozai's enthusiasm was a bit too much. Rey joined in a bit when the boys were near. Ruffers declined to get involved in any rough-housing, even when she was off leash with Rey and Rey ran over to her and dodged around to try to get her going. At one point, there was a Husky a ways ahead of us, who was linger