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Yay!!!! I'm back!!! My internet connection is so horrible that putting anything on the internet is painful. ... but I've upgraded so here it goes...!

Last week I had some people out from Toronto that wanted riding lessons, from ground zero!

I pulled Magik and Slim out for the job.

After going through it, here they are trying to remember how to put the saddle on.

Jeff and Ace did great riding! Ace has only ridden once in his life at a Youth Camp, and Jeff rode once when he was 6.

Magik let me know that this was definately the best part of the evening....treat time!

Brenda

Having fun out west..

Our w2 branding irons have been busy this summer.

Chuck skidding in logs with Arvid and Decker.

Sprucing up Lone Horse sure is fun!

Leroy our stud is out and in the dude line this summer and everyone can't believe he is a stud. smile

Brian McRann on our High Mountain Clinic

Clinic folks galloping down Harrison flats!





Kara on Boone

Going to clear trail but Chuck forgot to fill the saw up before we packed it on Leroy!

Kara on Jessie helping us lead some horses back.

Taylor our wrangler in training with a string of her own.

We ran into a helicopter at 40 mile cabin and it was a great chance to get the horses use to it BECAUSE the STARS helicopter is coming to our Competition and Sale! I am riding Nix leading the string while Connie and Jennifer our Saddle Sore guests are riding King and Boone.

On our Saddle Sore Bogdan rode Jessie my mare who is in foal with Leroy.

The view from the top, the weather has been amazing.

The cook had a great treat for us when we got down from the top!!

The summer is going so good, the weather, the people & the horses are great! One more trip then we pack up camp and move north for the Competition weekend, hope you all have it on your calendars as we can't wait to see everyone again! giddy up...

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...

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!