- This is a pretty treacherous part.
I grew up on these trails, essentially.
When I was a kid I'd ride my bike
down these trails every single day.
They've changed a little bit with the erosion and stuff.
But I know this can be a pretty
treacherous part of the hike.
So I wanted to make sure I got it on camera
in case one of us completely bails.
(laugh)
I know this section, and this is where it will happen.
- Woah! - See.
(dog barks)
- Good morning.
- Hello.
- We are out for a hike.
We wanted to take the dogs.
It's pretty hilly, and I may sound
a little out of breath already.
(giggle)
- That's because he just tripped over a root.
- We wanted to take the dogs out for a walk today,
and bring you guys along with us.
This is a really beautiful set of trails,
so we're looking forward to the walk.
So we are on a pretty cool hike today.
This is actually Beeline's first hike.
Which is what we wanted to talk to you guys about.
Sort of getting to the point where
we were comfortable allowing Bee off leash
in a situation like this.
- In fact we sort of are trying to make sure
that we have a plan in place for the other dogs as well.
Y'know we have them all off leash in the woods here.
So between the two of us we can keep an eye on them all,
which is great.
Although they tend to think the best thing is like
running up and down the trail at a hundred miles an hour.
- [Ken] For sure.
- But we also need to make Bee respectful to others
so, if we happen to see somebody else on the trail,
we don't really want our dogs running and
interrupting their walks.
So we always sort of have plans in place.
So we will call the dogs back to us
or have them lie down.
And with Beeline, I'm gonna call her back
and put her back on the leash
so that, y'know, if she makes any bad choices
or whatever, I'm just, I'm playing it safe.
I don't wanna be getting her in trouble for anything.
I wanna be proactive and try to be responsible,
to help her make good choices.
She's been listening really, really well lately.
- One of the reasons why we haven't taken her on the hike
so far, is just due to the fact that
when she was getting around the other dogs a few months ago
she was just too overstimulated,
and she wasn't listening 100 percent of the time,
which we didn't really want her rehearsing.
That's kind of, that's kind of the criteria for off leash.
Listening 100 percent of the time.
- Absolutely, she's nine months now,
and she's listening very well.
So we thought we would let her earn her stripes today.
So far so good.
- I think I've caught my breath.
We just came up a big climb,
you can see it behind us there.
I think we should continue on.
- Absolutely.
(fast, upbeat music)
- This is a pretty treacherous part.
I grew up on these trails, essentially.
When I was a kid, I'd ride my bike
down these trails, every single day.
They've changed a little bit with the erosion and stuff.
But I know this can be a pretty
treacherous part of the hike.
So I wanted to make sure we got it on camera
in case one of us completely bails.
(laugh)
I know this section, and this is where it will happen.
- Woah!
- See.
She made it.
I'm glad because it's a long walk back.
(bright music)
- The dogs are covered in sludge.
Slam. Slam.
Look at Slam's feet. - Oh no.
- [Ken] He looks like he's wearing black socks.
- Look at Hippie's little feet.
(laugh)
Sludge paws, pink mohawks.
(bright music)
So there's water coming up,
and there's two options.
Either to go through the water,
well, not us, the dogs,
or go up over this really sketchy looking metal bridge.
- [Ken] It's amazing. It's not sketchy at all.
- No, sketchy as in there's holes in it
so the dogs may not be super comfortable going across it.
But its not gonna like fall in the water
or something like that.
But I can just hear the water for now,
so I'm just gonna have the dogs wait so I can go check.
I would hate for them to go in the water
and be whisked away.
Beeline especially, she loves the water
but she has never gone swimming yet.
Anyways, I'm gonna check it out before we go.
- [Ken] Yeah, we'll hang out here.
(pop)
- I think it's okay.
It's kind of fast, but it's very shallow.
So I think they can probably just run through it.
Come on! Go for a swim!
Oh! (laugh)
- [Ken] Rad decided to take the bridge which is.
- Oh Funky too!
- Funky did too.
- Loyal companions. - Yeah.
Very good Rad, I'm impressed.
- I think, we're both pretty impressed that--
- Look at my leash situation right now.
- Yeah, so Kayl's got all the leashes on
in case we encounter someone,
or, more importantly, in case we encounter another dog.
- I keep having to put Funky on a leash
because if I don't walk her, she doesn't get any exercise,
because she just stands and hunts.
So we do all of this work and then she like
doesn't even get her heart rate going at all.
If I put her on leash, she has to at least walk with me.
I'm impressed that, two things
that the dogs, especially Hippie,
were so willing to go across the water.
And that Rad and Funky both figured out to use the bridge.
It can be a pretty intimidating bridge,
'cuz its got a corrugated deck.
- I'm most surprised about Rad,
because the last time I walked here,
I had to carry him across that bridge.
Because, the water, we couldn't get across it at the time.
It was in the winter,
and I had to carry him across 'cuz he wouldn't walk.
He was like all over it this time.
I'm really surprised - Really great.
- Throwing stick
- [Ken] Kayl found a retrieving stick
to send the dogs out to.
I think they know what's up here.
- I want Bee to go in.
(bark)
This'll get Funky exercising, 'cuz she loves the water.
Oh, she's cheating though.
Funky, come on.
Bring it here.
She's like, how can I get to them.
C'mon bud.
(water splashes)
Rad, bring it here, yeah.
[Ken] She's not totally sure
how to get into that deeper water.
(happy music)
- Well the dogs had a great swim.
I think they really enjoyed it.
You could see, all of the dogs were getting in there
and diving into the water.
- We've got to work on Bee and Hippie still.
- Yeah, Bee was a little bit more hesitant
to get into the deeper water.
But I was really impressed like how deep she went in
and going down the stream and stuff.
I thought that was pretty cool.
But we've encountered a nice, wide open area,
and we'd like to do a little bit of training.
- Yeah, we haven't seen anybody on the trail today,
which has been really lucky.
But we do like to practice some of the skills
that we would utilize if we did meet somebody
on the trail from time to time.
When there's no one around,
so that we can actually train the dogs.
Every so often we'll yell out to everybody to lie down.
Or we'll call them all back
and have them sit near to us.
But it's always a good idea to practice those skills
without actually being under the fire of
people actually being there
that you have to control your dog around.
- Sometimes those distractions just prove to be too much,
so if you practice it in an environment
where the dog's way more likely to be right
you're way more likely to have a good training session.
- Absolutely. - So let's try that.
- Lie down.
Lie down.
Bee lie down.
That's good dogs.
Okay, here.
Here.
Slam, here.
Good, sit.
Bee sit.
Sit.
Slam, sit.
- We're stopping for a water break.
Get all the dogs rehydrated.
We needs some water ourselves.
Hopefully they don't knock over the camera.
- One of the things that's really handy when you're hiking,
is a bowl like this.
Can you just expand that for a sec?
- It's a collapsible bowl.
- I actually bought them originally,
because of all the traveling I do over CP.
Because they're super light.
Oh see, they're looking for water, here.
But they collapse down into being completely flat.
Here guys, here come get a drink.
Here - Go get a drink.
- We finally made it back to the car.
The bugs were awful.
The last 150 feet was,
I mean I'm covered in welts.
- Me too - From mosquito bites.
Next time, I am never doing this
without smothering myself in bug spray.
- It was pretty bad.
It's a good hike though.
The dogs are super exhausted.
Everybody was panting when they got back to the car.
That's definitely worth the hike.
It was a lot of fun.
It was really fun watching those guys all swim together.
Now if you have a really keen eye,
you may have missed, that Deegan and Mac,
or you may have noticed that Deegan and Mac weren't with us.
They had a run earlier today,
and because they're both older,
we didn't really want to exhaust either of them.
It would have been a little bit too much.
So now we're headed home, covered in bug bites.
We're gonna have to deal with that, I guess,
when we get home.
- Tacos and sleepy puppies up next.
(laugh)
(techno music)
- I now these cooking segments are completely pointless,
but they're really fun for me to shoot.
So, let me know in the comments if you're enjoying them.
Kayl thinks its ridiculous, - Ridiculous!
that I'm filming creating food,
but I think it's really fun.
And hopefully its presented in a way that you find fun too.
So let me know in the comments below.
(techno music)
- Well, I'd say everybody's tired out
and ready for bed, after the walk.
- They're keeping me nice and warm.
- [Ken] I think it's time for us to shut it down as well.
Maybe watch some Netflix and then call it a night.
- Sounds good to me.
- [Ken] So from Funky, and Slam, and Kayl and myself,
good night.
- Good night.
(light music)