Back to the hills...

We headed back to Kingman for a super quick trip and a long drive in one day!

I was so excited to see Leroy our stud and his ladies. He looks so dog gone good...yummy!

The mares he is with are Barbie the palamino (I leased this mare from our good friends Deb & Randal below and she is also the mother of Sugar whom we own that is in the sale.) Jessie is the sorrel with the big blaze and blond hair and the other sorrel is Gracie. We grabbed Gracie and Barbie and took Barbie home with Gracie heading to the hills with us for the rest of the summer.


The smells of the fields smelled so good!

Had a nice visit when we dropped off Barbie with the Penmans!

Enjoying the heat wave...along with crossing the CLEARWATER!

Hello everyone...been awhile since I have been to town! We have been busy finally packing gear into our high camp "Lone horse". We can cross on horses thus far and haven't been able to take the wagon yet. But knock on wood we can get it in tomorrow! Last week we hauled in two loads doing 80 miles in 4 days....a nap was in order the next day. All the horses have now been packed and doing good. It was so nice to finally get to our heaven on earth up river and we were among the first ones up river. No wagons have gone yet...

Here is a pic of Chuck crossing the clearwater for the 1st time this year...yeah! It was hard to leave but we have to get all the camp in. smile

I rode Ringo in and this is his 4th ride...he is doing so good and I am extremely impressed with his common sense. We came around a corner and there was grizzley standing up, I starting singing and he slowly got down, shook the rain off and slowly walked to the side. I passed with my string, then Chuck passed with his and he started to come back to Chuck....we looked back for about 2 miles! Then just before our camp ran into another grizz but he did like most and darted away. Ringo never batted an eye....HOLY CRAP!


Here is Ringo the MAN!

Here I am on Ringo with my string, Macy, Nix and Kita.

Sugar was on the end with the saw that we didn't need....TRAIL WAS CLEAR! YEE HAW!!!

Chuck and his string crossing the timber creek...


Heading towards 40 mile cabin on the old pack trail.

Morning coffee with the ponies...G & Boone.



Chuck on King crossing the timber creek.

Nix.

Rusty packed instead of hauling up the wagon, I like packing big horses!!! smile

ahh....getting into high camp and enjoying the peace of the mountains and the crackle of the fire. Can't wait till we are all moved in!

Drying the boots...

The stunning valley of 40 mile meadow.

Getting water on King.

We got off the trail full of dust and a night in the bedroll and grabbed the tubes and hit the water! When we got back some of the horses were a bit spooked so we did some more training till they were happy with them!

This is Chevyo a training horse.

What else do you do on +30 days!!!!

1st ride!

Till next time...

Swimming...yee haw!

On the hot days we took to the water with the ponies...

Here is Macy.. but I quickly pulled the saddle.

I took the string in, Shanice is on Kane, I am on Rusty leading Ringo, Nix, Boone and Decker. Taylor is on G. I think the horses enjoyed the cool water too.

Jumping back on Kita after my plunged....first dive is the coldest.

The girls jumping off their horses.

I joined in and dove off of Rusty's bum.

Shanice grabbed Decker.

We found a deeper hole!

The Wild Buckskin mare finally foals. (Terri grabs her rope...smile)

Rusty and Decker getting a drink..

Nix my now gelding, he was my stud prospect but our main stud Leroy has set a really high bar. Nix will be a good gelding!

Out for a ride in the sun, we are all sporting nice burns! I am guiding on Macy who is doing really well.






The wild horses we have been watching for 5 weeks have been a lot of fun. This mare and her small herd of one stud, another palamino and one yearling finally foaled! We don't know if she would let us get close but she seems much happier with her filly on the ground.

All the wild horses are feeling their oats these days with most of the mares coming into heat. There are been nightly fights with the studs and lot's of noise. They are coming closer to our camp now as we too have in heat mares...

hmmm...free stud fee? jk

Shanice on Nix.

Ranger...(he sells this fall)









Sugar (who will be in our sale this fall)

Ringo (who will also be in our sale this fall)

Chuck riding Stumpy one of our training horses with Ranger as his wheel horse.

Laurie Lee and her friends joined us for a day ride. The weather was awesome, we stopped for a lunch around the fire and was a great day!

Wednesday's Wine for June...smile!

Kayla brought me out a nice red wine and we enjoyed it around the fire with a nice elk steak. It was really yummy so go out and try this one. I would say it is best sipped in the mountains...right Kayla?