Saturday, November 28, 2009

An extreme sport

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What do you call it? I call it an extreme sport. No, it’s not rock climbing or sky diving or heli-skiing. But horse packing in the back coun...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

On comments

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My apologies, friends and visitors. After receiving several e-mails mentioning the difficulty in posting comments on this site, I had switch...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Insulated Water Trough

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I don’t know how many folks reading this have to deal with morning temperatures which regularly read anywhere from an even zero down to “off...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A personal story

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I was not a horse kid. In fact, I barely knew what a horse was as a child. I couldn’t even convince my folks to get me a cat. Though I did c...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tricks of the trade: Tying to the highline

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Out on a pack trip, the highline serves as the barn for the night for our horses. The longer we stay at any one given camp, the more the hor...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Peace Returns

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In so many ways. A warm spell, perhaps the last until the end of March. Calm, a rest from work, a reprise in play, the pasture is melted out...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Winter's Warning

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This time of year, the snow comes and goes. One day our world is white, the next a heavy mud, then followed by a day of warm and brown and o...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Graduation Day: The first ride

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This is it. The big day. All the work with the newborn foal, the weanling and the yearling is paying off. We finally get to ride! And becaus...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Stallion gone wild

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Winter is coming early. The last of our horses who will be spending the following half a year down on pasture in the valley below our mounta...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

High School Years: The Yearlings

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My son is in high school. I think he’d tell you what he’s learning is a lot harder than what a yearling learns. He’s right, of course. But I...