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One of the few State Parks in CA to allow you to hike with your dog. Only of fire roads, not trails, but we’ll take it.

Starting out. I am stressed because we are on a “trail” not a “fire road.”

Butano Fire Road

Tony and redwoods

Tony inside a redwood

Group shot before we turned around, about 2.5 miles in

We ended up doing about 5 miles of hiking, with about 1/2 mile of it on a trail we were not supposed to be on. But we couldn’t actually figure out the “legal” way to get to Butano Fire Road, at least not without a ridiculous detour.

What a neat place. Looks like Sunol, but 1/100 the people. Takes twice as long to get to though.

Map of the hike (5 miles total):

More pictures are here.

S-p-ring is here. Life is skittles. And life is beer.

Ok, no pigeon poisoning, but here are some flowers from the back yard.

While lilacs.

Purple lilacs

Frankenpeach. Technically, the growth is above the graft. But is it a peach, who knows.

Maple (?) tree blooming.

Very tired dog stretching.

Very tired dog sleeping.

Good book on dog behaviorism. Similar material to Animals in Translation, but well written.

Book on dog behavior and training. Donaldson is the head of training at the SF SPCA and a positive reinforcement Nazi. If it’s not clicker training, you are wrong, abusive, an idiot, and in general should not be allowed near a dog. At the same time the language in the book is so technical that should the misguided, abusive, correction-using trainer want to become enlightened in the ways of operant conditioning, shaping, conditioned reinforcers, NRM’s (huh?), and the like, he won’t get past page two.

Of course, we all know that the only thing two dog trainers can agree on is that the third trainer is wrong.

It snowed 10 feet last week. We went to Kirkwood.

Tony got his first Rally Novice leg at the San Francisco DTC trial in Daly city with a 94. We got 3 one-point deductions for out of position and one 3 point deduction for some unknown handler (that’d be me) error.

Carmel-by-the Sea, Jan 13-14, 2007

Fremont Older OSP, Dec 30, 2006

Christmas Dinner

Mendocino, Nov 26-27, 2006

Death of a toy. The chocolate lab is not Tony. More pictures are here.