Had a big day on this, the 40th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act. What better way to recognize the people who recognized the need to protect our wild horses and burros?
Love seeing stallions with foals – nurturing the next generation. Sundance and curious Mysterium.
Lots of snow, but this time, lots of mud, too. Mostly under the snow still, but it has been warm. On the drive out, I dropped from much-missed sunshine illuminating blue skies into the Dolores River canyons and Disappointment Valley, almost entirely shrouded in fog. Would you believe the basin, across to the east, was glowing under a break in the clouds? On this blog, of course you would, and you’d be correct. 🙂
During the day, the sky over the basin cleared completely, though the fog line stayed over the western hills, then floated back and came up from the south, obscuring Brumley Point, McKenna Peak, the unnamed promontory and the far southern ridges and hills before sunset.
What I would have given to have horses in front of that delicious light! But the original horses I went in looking for were the ones I didn’t see hide nor hair of – nor even hoofprints! The pinto ponies proved elusive.
Saw most of the horses from a distance but had a wonderful visit with Sundance’s band.
The big news is what I didn’t see.
Explanation?
Who stole Roja and Killian?!
Aspen doesn’t have them! Not Grey/Traveler. Not Sundance. Not Comanche. Not Hollywood. Not Bounce, Tenaz or Seven. Probably not Storm or David (distance … trees …). Those are the ones I saw. 🙂 Maybe next week will provide an answer!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Is Chrome the lucky stud perhaps?
Could be. I didn’t see him and his band. The first thing that popped into my head was that maybe Kreacher got her back. He had her and Molly (likely her dam) after the 2007 roundup until he lost them to Seven that next spring, after Traveler stole Houdini, Two Boots and Twister from him. Definitely wasn’t Seven stealing them back; he’s still with Bounce and young Mr. Tenaz.
Maybe could it be Ty, or Corazon?
Have Poco and Roach ever been with any mares?
Sundance and Mysterium are so cute together!
I kinda doubt it’s either Ty or Corazon – pintos not in the areas where I’ve seen Aspen the last several weeks. Poco had Bones … then Iya this last year after Comanche stole them from Hollywood (not sure how they got away from Comanche except that he seemed interested only in keeping Kestrel and Winona) – Sage went with Iya and Cougar initially, then ended up with the bachelor boys. Roach has always been with Poco (since at least 2004) with some minor and very brief exceptions, but Poco always has been the dominant of the two.
Wow! What great pictures. The one with the fog is really different. I love how fuzzy Mysterium is.
I wish I’d had a wider-angle lens to show it better – the fog was really cool. The horses are all wonderfully fuzzy for winter! 🙂
Loved the fog in the valley! Interesting how the horses move and find their mates, then it is disolved just as quickly.
love this photo