Category: Outdoors

Hike – 3/25/2023 – Hill Country State Natural Area

Luna and I headed out to Hill Country State Natural Area. It’s about 10 miles outside Bandera. If you hit HAAAYYY HOLLARRRR Rd you’re almost there! It’s a pretty large area. The lady said there’s 40 miles worth of trails and over the course of 4 hours Luna and I saw 11 of those miles. For the first time ever Luna didn’t want to play fetch when we got home. Thankfully I had just enough water for us both. It wasn’t really the route I expected to take out there on the trails. I’d been wanting to go out there and I saw they had Madrone trees which sounded pretty cool. I was able to find a few (barely) and definitely found some amazing views and if I hadn’t after climbing 58 floors I’d be sad.

HAAAYYYY HOLLLAARRRRR
oh, now i gotta climb on a bench, great

Hike – 3/4/2023 – Mission Del Lago Trailhead

This morning Luna and I got out early and hit the trail around 7:45 am to avoid the heat. Not much going on here. We hiked from the Mission Del Lago Trailhead to the Pleasonton Trailhead and back. It was between a 7-8 mile hike and took us around 3 hours. Luna is usually in the gentle lead on walks now. She is persistent with needing to be in the lead but does pretty well with this on. This trail goes along Mitchell Lake, aka Lake Stinky, aka Stay Away From Mitchell Lake. We did get to see a horse’s ass though! The horses were funny. I wish I could have videoed it. When we walked back past them they were right on the fence line along the trail. Luna kept wanting to dart at them and would just end up pulled back to me. I guess one of the horses then thought it would be fun to tease Luna and persisted to walk along the fence line following us for about 100 yards, maybe a little more.

Good girl
Lonesome tree
Don’t worry, the smell is keeping me away, no fence needed
The one on the left is the one that teased Luna, and of course, the horse’s ass

Hike – 2/4/2023 – Devil’s Den

After getting weather delayed last weekend we traveled over to the northwest side to check out Devil’s Den. Once believed to be a location for satanic rituals, fueled pretty hard by 2 bodies discovered in the 90s, we now know this spot used to be a quarry and the structure is just a remnant of that. This was a cool spot but I will say this. Recently there was an article naming San Antonio as one of the trashiest cities in the country. That is so evident at this park. There were a few really cool spots but each one of them had so much trash. Really unfortunate. Also, we saw so many deer here.