Trail Ride Part 2

Saturday afternoon (tires are bought and changed- ready to go) saddled and ready to ride. !!!Finally!!!

Dave and Indy - Shirley and Beamer

Shirley and Beamer having a bite to eat while taking a look around the Outfitters camp, you see how nice the ground looks around Beamer's feet all green and nice....what you don't see is the multitude of Gopher holes....that area is a broken ankle looking for a place to happen.

Oops this pic should have been on the earlier post.....oh well it's here now. This is our visiting Albertan Charlene and her horse Ricky - Dave with Skookum and Indy ( Skook is a 3 yr old Perch / Quarter and Mustang cross he measures 16.1 ) I guess Dave never followed what he was told ....Admire the tall and ride the small.

After our ride this was a time for relaxing and enjoying a little stress free downtime. Hey do you guys see a theme going on here. This is Crystal from Ranch Riding and look at what she has in her lap.

This is Charlene and look what she has in her lap. Man I thought I was a sucker for this pup. I thought I might have to check their truck before they left. That dog isn't going to know how to walk the way everyone packs her around.

The horses didn't mind having some down time as well. For my horses it turned out to be a stressful week end, I discovered a couple of my nice? well trained horses?? are rather dangerous when they decide to have a bad day....back to the basics I guess.

This is a decent shot of Skookum showing how well he has mastered the hobbles.

Well that's it for this installment I must go to bed. I will try to get the last post of our ride up in the morning.

Trail Ride Part 1

I have to do this post in stages, I should be more like Shirley and do an interesting but shorter versian oh well if you get bored ......the beauty of technology shut me off. The first 2 pics are fairly obvious they are pre- loading yahoo we are going.

Dave and I went in Fri afternoon and got our camp set up, there was already another couple there with horses so they had the corral. It turns out they live just a few miles down the road from us. Later in the afternoon I went back down the road- an hour to wait for Shirley and the Alberta girls so I could show them the way in.These next pics are out of sinc, unfortunately our new friend from Alberta was having tire problems and had to get some changing done. Three flats on one trip is three to many. Where we were is not a good place for flat tires, thank goodness we had a fix it guy along.The 2 pics below are what we saw from our camp when the Alberta rig came limping in. You can get a better versian of this story over at Ride A Good Horse.

These shots were taken at about 8.00 or so pm so the sun was at the top of the mountains and it was getting to be dusk below where we were.This photo was taken the next day, Shirley and Crystal went into Cranbrook where I'm glad to say they received excellent service. They returned to camp with new tires and a new rim. Dave put her tires on, I'm sure she was relieved to know she would make it out safely.I think Crystal and her friend Charlenelike our scenery but I'm not so sure they like how.... you get up close and personal to it. To find out what the girls thought about their week - end wander over to Ranch Riding and see what's up.

That's it for this post I will try for another bit tomorrow. Hey I saw a few posts from Sunday's Metal challenge - awesome. Later.

Weird Sunrise

It was quite smokey this morning and this was a very strange attempt at a Sunrise. Sorry my pics aren't in sequence, my computer won't let me shift them around anymore and I keep forgetting I have to put the ones I want first - last. Did I say that right? Whatever there you have it