Album The dogs of backcountrypost.com

[Nick]

In honor of International Dog Day...

Sage after a swim on Saturday:


Nikita's current obsession: fishing.

 

[Nanda]

Dog day it is.
P8223365 by hopescooter, on Flickr

 

[BJett]

Every day is Dog Day for Luna

 

[klank]

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@slc_dan what type of breed is Miya? photo above gives impression an Australian Cattle Dog but Flickr photos give different view.

 

[klank]

@slc_dan found post at beginning of thread noting breed. =)

 

[slc_dan]

@klank Mya is a great dog. Healer/Pointer mix. She's really hit her prime this year.

 

[steve]

For all the dog lovers out there, check out TurboPUP. We saw them at the OR show and they're a really cool company. Basically, it's an entire meal for your dog in a bar about the size of your phone. The owner is a decorated US Air Force Vetran and super cool dog owner who hikes, camps, skis, etc with her dog. She needed a solution to keep her dog fed and energized on these trips, and invented the TurboPUP bar with her husband who is a food scientist. She was pretty stoked to hear that we have our own thread dedicated to our dogs. She's a great person and it'll be awesome to see her company keep growing. I'll do a little bigger product feature in the review section later, but in the mean time, check out her stuff. Fender loves his TurboPUP bars and it really cuts down on the bulk and weight of food needed for my dog on backcountry adventures.

Read about the background of the company and owners here:
http://www.turbopup.com/human-support-team.html


I have no affiliation with the company, I just really like their products and what they stand for.

 

[Artemus]

OK, back to our thread roots, our Dogs in the Backcountry...

Merlin, my now-91 desert-rat companion demonstrating that you don't need no stinkin', high-tech, sticky rubber to descend the steeps of the Dirty Devil even carrying a load.


Kind of takes is out of a man though. Merlin napping using whatever pillow is at hand.

 

[Nick]

Not my video, but how's this for a GoPro POV?

 

[steve]

that's awesome.

 

[Artemus]

Aha. Merlin is on a roll! A great account of a Dog in the Backcountry: http://backcountrypost.com/forum/th...ute-across-the-uintas-divide.1311/#post-13921 .. Read to the account section of Merlin going over the ridge.

 

[BJett]

last one of Luna for awhile, I promise...Red River Gorge, KY.

 

[Nanda]

Scooter basking in morning sun, Smiths fork, WY.

 

[JulieKT]

My kinda thread. Lots of great photos. Here's my best canine pal, Pippin, in Blind Lake, on Boulder Mountain, June 2013. He's a big fan of water. And sticks. Particularly sticks in the water.

 

[Ben]

This is Isaac, almost a year and a half ago, when he was almost six months. He's yellow lab mixed with a gray pointer. They had twelve black puppies. I don't think i've ever met any one faster than him. Or that likes hiking as much as i do.
We're getting ready to descend to the bottom of Bruneau Canyon.

Here he is getting ready for the short bit of hand and toe climbing.
And here at the bottom tuckered out after a couple miles along the bottom.

 

[Artemus]

Bruneau! Was it hard to get him to tolerate him being in the pack. I never did get my dogs to like being in a pack or hanging from a rope in their harness for that matter.

 

[Ben]

Bruneau! Was it hard to get him to tolerate him being in the pack. I never did get my dogs to like being in a pack or hanging from a rope in their harness for that matter.

not a good picture, old ipod camera, bad light, but it's the best i've got of this. he held perfectly still except to turn his head to look over my other shoulder, didn't make a sound until i let him out and then abandoned him to go back for the gear, at which point he barked wildly. it'd be harder to take him like this now, he's about twenty pounds heavier. i took this picture while i was holding on to the wall with one hand though and the camera with the other.

 

[Ben]

i believe in indulging. here's Isaac on the 7 devils loop

 

[John Goering]

You and me both, brother. C'mon people let's see your dogs! Here is my second child, Luna. She is another rescued border collie. My 4th BC but the only real one as far as hyper-athletic, hyper-active, task-centric, anal, handful. Boy do I love her. A very small (runt) collie. She is cooling off in the waters of Saddlehorse canyon in our precious San Rafael Swell after yet another lightning run.

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Wow, the mirror image:

That girl was Darby and tied with an aussie for the best dogs I've had. She passed away in 2009 at 15 years.

The current crew:

 

[River]

Molly in Yellowstone, wondering why she can't go hiking.