Basil

This post is dedicated to my one-year-old blue Great Dane, Basil, who has accompanied me on every hiking trip to the Blue Hills this year.

Having a Great Dane with you on your hikes has its ups and downs. On the positive side, you feel quite secure around any stranger you meet. Less ideal is having a 140-pound dog fight for position atop some rocky pinnacle (he always wins). Or having him sink the boards on the Ponkapoag bog walk so that photography takes a back seat to survival!