Fog Dogs

Fog Dogs enjoying the cool Pacific fog as it rolled over the Las Trampas Wilderness area ridges from the west.

Winds blew at over 40 MPH on the ridges and drove me back down into the sunshine of the San Ramon Valley below.

Pups grow up fast.

The Lily, Chloe and Bailey pack

July 4, 2011  Russian River camping

Spring 2012 Morro Bay camping

Summer 2013 Point Pinole hiking

Early Spring 2015 Mount Diablo Park hiking

Almost summer 2015 us leaving the house for a walk to the park after a rain

Las Trampas Late Spring 2015

Enjoying the late spring air and open fields and wooded trails of Las Trampas Wilderness Area.

At the lower elevations of the walk the foxtails were in the fields.  For the dogs to have the freedom to explore, they wore their "Outfox Field Guard" PPE.

Once up on the ridge the foxtails were much less common and the dogs were able to go "naked."

Dropping into Corduroy Hills Canyon 

Corduroy Hills Trail Review

the forest trail was steep and narrow.  The wildflowers were in bloom.  It was a wonderful 7 mile hike on a cool late spring Saturday morning.

Historical Vizsla Document

http://www.katavizs.com/historical_document.htm

The above is the link to the rest of the document AND a link to the original Hungarian letter.

This document is the most important document
 of the modern history of the Hungarian Vizslas.
 At least to those who care about the history 
of the breed at all.

It was stored in Canada.  No one knew - 
after the end of the 1960-ies - what it was all
 about, 
as it was written in Hungarian
 and put aside
 as one of the documents of no importance. 
Until 2010 - when by a pure chance -
 I was asked to tell what this letter was about.
 As soon as I've read it, I knew this
 was what 
we Hungarians always referred to as
 the "missing link"
 of the Hungarian Vizsla History, 
the link we
 Hungarians always talked about and
 regretted we didn't have. 

I realized immediately the utmost
 importance of this letter, 
as it identifies the old Hungarian Vizslas
 before and during 
World War II., the ancestors of our
 Hungarian Vizsla stock,
 we Hungarians thought were lost
 to us forever because
 all the approximately 700 pedigrees 
of Vizslas disappeared 
after the World War II. Some say the
 pedigrees were "saved"
 from the Russians, some say they
 were simply stolen. 
Up to today the pedigrees are lost 
and there is very
 - if any at all - hope they will ever
 be found, as the
 person who took them is no longer 
alive and he
 never revealed where the pedigrees were.

Therefore this is the most important
 document 
for all people seriously involved in
 Hungarian Vizsla
 as it identifies the ancestors of all 
Hungarian Vizslas today.

Mihály Kende was a very important person
 during and
 after World War II. within the Vizslas.