Camping

We've done our first two small camping trips. The first trip, 2 days, we camped at/near the "tie

shack". I mentioned it in an earlier post but this time I have pictures! We actually didn't stay in the tie shack, we just slept on the ground a few hundred yards away, near the horse corrals. I set up the "kitchen" in the bed of the truck, and kept it pretty simple. We had gone out just a few days after the heavy rain, so the roads were pretty muddy, and we ended up getting stuck more than once on our way up.

One of the horses, Casper, got really sick the first day and spent several hours in what looked like a near death experience. He'd fall over, stand up, pant, flail, stop breath, start again.....he ended up surviving the night and getting back to the ranch the next day. After seeing a vet, turns out he likely had an allergic reaction to something. It was no fun watching him struggle though.

Our second camping trip was for 3 days, and went well. We set up the wall tent, and have a

little more official camp set up. The guys leave from camp each morning and gather cows and push them down the valley, then the last day they pushed the ones that had been gathered previously all the way down to the meadows around the ranch. We came back to the ranch for 2 days (and had a day off!) and are heading back up to camp this afternoon for a few more days.

(we left camp all set up, I just brought the food back so the mice wouldn't devour it).

Here are a few pictures from camping and the guys practicing their roping in the evening.