Mountain Trips - Kin's take

I don't understand this fetish that my human has to go up things

 and why on earth does he drag me with him?

Still, a good tactic is, 'the sitting' tactic:

I've found this to be a very effective tactic - if this doesn't work, there is always the lying down tactic.

Normally humans can be steered to a good location for a picnic:

Once, you've chosen the spot, you can employ the 'sit' or the 'lie' to get humans to join you:

Here I am telling my human to stay.

Sometimes I just don't understand what they are looking at.

Still everyone appreciates a kiss:

But sometimes humans don't seem to be very smart,

How is this not obvious, what I want???

Still I love them anyway:

Fuel - Nurhan's take

These two boys:

Eat this amount of frozen food (400 kgs):

In about 170 days.

Food comes from:
http://www.propet.no/produkter.php

Kommune's road digging policy turns personal - Nurhan's take

 Kin inspecting something that is even more efficient at digging holes then he is...

Then he decides that there's nothing to be done, and no chance of a quick get away this way...

Treats

He did leave me with the pig's ear...

Cabin Life

For various reasons last year I bought a cabin:

In October I'll have had the cabin for one year. Main reason for having the cabin was to go up into the snow with Kin, so I get to go skiing and I don't have to leave him at home. 

Cabin is about 1hr 10mins from home, and I still have all the DnT cabins/Statens Skøg cabins to use for a proper mountain trip (ski in, ski out).

 Lovely temperature, especially when it's snowing :-)

 Although he has to check inside to see what the humans are up to.

He of course takes his child minding duties seriously.

He also likes to inspect all work going on at the cabin:

Fortunately this repair met with his approval:

The Best of Friends

I'm highly skeptical of South African Mastiffs (Boa Boars - liberties have been taken with this spelling). Karma was attacked by one at about seven in the morning as this dog pulled out of the owners hands in it's enthusiasm to attack Karma. Happily Karma was youngish, saw him coming, and probably had at least 10 kgs on it. Karma went up on his back legs and met the evil beast on equal terms. I managed an ineffectual kick into the evil one's flank (I had Karma on the lead, so had a bad angle). Karma fought the evil one off, and then went back to his walk, with his feather duster tail up in the air - nothing bothered Karma, he really matched his name! So I was skeptical when I met Ijronn.

Ijronn is a beautiful dog, both in form, but especially in personality. He's about the same age as Kin, they are in the same weight class (Kin 74 kgs, Ijronn 81 kgs) and they are the best of friends. We live a couple of Km apart, but text to try to take trips together. The two our soooo happy to meet, they play, and they are soooo happy it's great to see them.

Reidar, and Karin (the owners) are as lovely as their dog.

Creatures

We regularly see deer on our local walks:

Also deer have a tendency to lie down in the long grass and it's very difficult to see them:

Now when Kin's off the lead, he has a tendency to run and then do a high speed roll, I'm going to have to try and get this on video, it's really funny to watch; anyway he did this a few mornings ago at about 0600, and as he rolled a deer sprang up out of the grass, very close to him, and went off at a rate of knots, the really funny thing was, so did Kin, but running away from the deer! Kin get's spooked easily and then gets distance, whilst looking over his shoulder to have time to think what to do!

We also walked under this lady:

All the above pics are taken local to where we live, with a phone camera.

Now the local council have a hole digging fetish, and they have been feeding this fetish over the last few years by digging up all the roads around my house - to the extent that I went flying after work a couple of months ago and on returning it was no longer possible to get back to my house the way I'd driven out a few hours earlier - the car was abandoned and we progressed back on foot - but it's got sooooo bad that even the deer are stumped as to which way to go:

This was taken from one of the windows in my house... the deer is trying to figure out where to go with three out of the four directions blocked (she jumped a neighbour's fence, I lost site of her when she jumped the next fence).