Observations on Stochastic Hiking

• Hiking with a Chaos Hound on a lead through the woods is very much like hiking with an 8-year-old boy with ADD.


• Hiking with a Chaos Hound without a lead through the woods is exactly like hiking with an 8-year-old boy with ADD.


• Chaos Hounds are faster than 8-year-olds when they see a deer, though.


• They are better about finding their way back, at least.


• No one's really sure which of us got muddier.

Overall, though, hiking through the woods and the rain and the mud on a Saturday afternoon with a dog is an excellent sanity break; if you're a surly ranger type, anyway.