We love the nature in the north woods at Camp Warren. Our nose work camp, The Great Minnesota Sniffover, is held at a camp deep in the woods on Half Moon Lake in Eveleth. It is always lots of fun, and a great learning experience. This year was sad after losing Emma, but having her honored made Mom and my fifth year extra special.
Our time at camp is pretty busy. Everyone is divided into three groups, and we get to have a half day training session with each instructor. There are also optional searches in the evening if our noses are up for it. It’s amazing how much we can learn and experience in one weekend. We are so fortunate to be training with some of the top people in nose work, as well as some of the best K9 handlers for explosives and drug detection in the US. Every year we bring home a couple truly amazing tips to help us better our sniffing game.
Madison, aka Gladys Kravitz, doesn’t sluff off on her snooping duties at camp. She spends most of her out of kennel time in the cabin standing on the bed, barking and howling at things she saw out the window. In five years, we have never seen real crime at camp, but Madison will make sure crime never happens.
In between meals and sniffing sessions, we have time to take some short walks around camp. This year camp was earlier than usual, so the boats and docks were still out. Madison wanted to kayak, but we didn’t have time for that.
It is a camp, and some of the cabins are heated by their fireplaces. Does anyone need some firewood? The weather was a bit cool in the mornings, and we did have some mist and rain showers, but overall it was warm enough without a fire.
For all you kitty fans of ours out there, I am sitting in this jumbo litter box! I think someone just finished cleaning it as I didn’t see any “piles” in there. Is it every cat’s dream or what?
Anyone interested in fungus, I mean mushrooms. This one is so cute.
Not far from that mushroom is a standing one. We don’t eat mushrooms, but Mom likes to look at them in the wild.
It’s a little bit too early for Halloween if you ask me, but the spiders are already decorating the cabin exteriors. It sure looks pretty, but don’t get stuck in it!
Mom’s favorite nature in the north woods find is these pretty little flowers. They are so small, yet so bright and cheery. Of course, we have no idea what they are, but that is fine. Seeing them makes us smile and we don’t need more than that.
Even though we just got home from nose work camp, we are already excited for next year. Olivia is planning on joining us next time, and we know she will really love it there in the woods! Nothing beats a good Sniffover for these scent hounds!
We are joining our friends at Living Laughing and Barking in Our Backyard is for their Nature Friday blog hop.
Some very cool photos! What a great time there.
We always love it up north.
oh we love the fabulous cabin and the whole place… and amazing that the diy projects of the spiders look so much better than ours LOL
Mom loves to look at the webs, but she gets so mad because she walks into them a lot and they stick all over her!
What a wonderful place to have your camp, with so much to see and enjoy during your down time. I think those flowers might be some type of wild aster. We have similar ones around our yard. They seem to pop up in the perfect places!
They are adorable mini flowers 🙂 Camp is always fun.
I would love to go there too. I know Olivia will enjoy it next year as well.
Have a woof woof day and weekend. My best to your peeps. ♥
Olivia will be over the top excited her first year, we know that!
You go Madison, aka Gladys Kravitz. A gal has gotta do what it takes to keep up to date on gossip.
Bailie you certainly shared some most beautiful photos today of Camp Warren. That spider web OMDs
Hugs Cecilia
Thank you. Every year we find new things to check out. The spider web looks pretty cool.
What a beautiful spot.
My sisters and I could live in the north woods, but Mom says she is fine with just visiting occasionally.
Gladys Kravitz – haha☺ Mom loves mushrooms as much as your mom does and that spider’s web is so pretty!
Thank you. There was some fun stuff to see!
That really does look like a wonderful place and we do love that big litter box!
Our kitties could use the giant litter box!
That upside down mushroom is shaped a lot like a baby pacifier.
Glad you had such a good time!
A baby pacifier with a piece of gunk attached!
it looks just gorgeous there and I LOVE your cabin!!
Thank you. It is a real pretty spot.
A perfect place to getaway and practice sniffing! We also love the forest…there are so many different things to look at and smell!
xoxo,
Rosy, Jakey & Arty
So many squirrels, it can make our minds spin!
Y.M.C.A. ! Did you see the Village People??? XOXO, Sparkle
We have never seen them at camp.
HOW FUN!!! We love exploring in the woods!
The Boys
It’s not a huge area to walk around, but there are always different things to see.
I always enjoy the pictures from your sleep away camp. Your cabins are awesome.
Everyone tells us they are nice, but Mom says they are bordering on too rustic for her taste. Still she stays there for the experience.
Glad you had fun at camp and Olivia is joining you next year.
Her sniffing career is starting, so she will make good use of camp lessons next year.
I remember that camp from last year. It looks like SO much fun, and the nature around you is gorgeous.
Yep, every fall for the past five years now. We always look forward to it.