Today I got up at 7 am to take Daisy for her morning walk. It was just the right time that we could watch the second part of the sunrise up at Selbhorn, a mountain top visible from the hotel. The air was still fresh...chilly you might even say, but that's one of the things I like about going hiking in fall.
Around 7.30 my parents and I went to breakfast. Unfortunately since the breakfast was in the rooms of an upscale restaurant, dogs were not allowed there and Daisy had to stay at the room. She wasn't particularly excited about that, but took it quite well. At the restaurant I made myself a Continental Breakfast 'Harry Style'. Bread, Sandwich Meat, Nutella, Egg, Coffee and a Fruit-Cocktail to top the breakfast off.
After we returned from breakfast we were greeted by a super excited Daisy and we started to get ready to leave for today's hike to Pichlalm. This hike is about 2 hours long in one direction and has no real technical difficulties, but is certainly quite steep at parts...and you have to climb about 1200 feet between starting point and destination. Well, we started easy and at a fairly slow pace and that gave Daisy tons of times to check out all the scents and smells. After about 40 minutes we passed by Mußbach Alm, a local snack place, but didn't stop there. Considering Daisy's age she does an awesome job hiking. She hikes at the same pace regardless how steep the terrain is, has still tons of time to check out the scents and smells, has obviously fun and a great time and is most of the time still hiking faster then I am. There are lots of free roaming cattle up there and for most of the time Daisy wasn't particularly interested in the cows. By the time we were about 2/3's into the hike,that was about to change. This time a 1-year old bull was interested in her. At first Daisy wasn't too sure what to make of it. But was willing to check that young bull out. But that guy just had to sniff her with that big nose and that did it for Daisy. She thought, that this guy is a little too interested and off she went. Next up was the rather muddy part...but that didn't bother Daisy at all and she even made use of her new skill and drank directly from one of the creeks we passed by. Shortly after that we reached Pichlalm. There Daisy met the local herding dog and after a few rather tense moments they checked each other out and even socialized a little. We sat down and had something to drink and a little snack. From up there you have a great view of the surrounding mountains. After a little over 1/2 hour of relaxing we started getting ready to head back down.
A Jack Russell crossed our way and just had to try to socialize with Daisy. Well she didn't want to know anything about that. She warned him twice, but that guy just didn't understand the meaning of the word 'No'. A rather dominant dog on the one side and a overexcited and overconfident dog on the other side...well that's a bad combination. I intervened before something bad could happen. The rest of the hike down was pretty much without any incidents. We stopped at Mußbach Alm and had something to drink. Since it was rather hot there it was only a very short stop and we continued with he hike back down. On the way down we had to pass one of the bigger creeks. In the morning Daisy had walked behind me across the bridge. But this time she walked into the creek and drank out form some time and then walked through the rest of the creek without any problems at all. Apparently she no longer is water shy! Shortly before we reached the hotel we met the dog of a local farmer. Daisy didn't even see him since he didn't move. Once he moved Daisy got startled and after s short tense moment Daisy figured that this dog is actually a boy and might be fun to hang out with. They socialized for a little, what prompted a certain Tweet and Facebook Status Message: "Daisy is like her Daddy...likes to make out with guys".
After that we headed back to the hotel to relax there for a couple of hours. For dinner we went to Restaurant Ambiente. This is a very good restaurant and I had a very yummy Zucchini Cream Soup and Pork Loin in Dijon Sauce. All in all it was a great Day 2 of the vacation!
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