Hiking Through the Dog Days, 2020
Oh the Dog Days of summer. At this point I suppose they have come and gone, this being the first day of meteorological fall. But, I digress, back to the dog days. Those days in summer commonly associated with the hottest days of the year, but more precisely those days corresponding to the dog stars (namely Sirius) rising in the southern sky with dawn. We hiked our way through several weekends up to high mountain…