This view looks across Spring Creek Basin toward Spring Creek canyon and beyond to the northern ridges of lower Disappointment Valley.
Clouds clear from the La Sal Mountains on the evening of our big snowfall.
It’s easy to imagine mustangs out there in big country, isn’t it? They were nearby but were more focused on finding and uncovering and eating than in taking photographic direction from the light- and background-obsessed paparazzo. 🙂
Shazamawowie!
This beauty was just a few miles outside Spring Creek Basin. In the background are the fresh-snow-covered La Sal Mountains.
The magic of beauty and wildness is all around us!
Handsome Kwana walks into the sunset … a little cloudy on this windy day in Spring Creek Basin. We’d like to see more cloudy days over the basin, especially if those clouds herald rain or snow.
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Happy post-turkey dinner!
Imagine mustangs. They’re there.
A little to the left. Down the hill. On the other side of the arroyo. 🙂
And then the light was gone.
The mustangs live on.
Do you love Raven’s white chinny-chin-chin? 🙂
Barely visible behind Reya are the La Sal Mountains of Utah. Although a few ponds in Spring Creek Basin are dry at the end of this dry fall, this particular pond has a good amount of water for the mustangs. We did get a bit of welcome rain a couple of days ago, but our abundant sunshine signals a return to dry and fairly warm conditions.
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P.S. ………….. VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maiku was just grazing along … and at just the right moment, he raised his head long enough for a perfect pic of Spring Creek Basin with the La Sal Mountains in the background.
The day was perfect, and, as the saying goes, life is good!
Jaunty, shaggy, feisty, muddy pinto pony! Some of the horses seem nearly fully shed out; others still are long-haired. All in good time.
Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin got an awesome soaker of a rain system Friday and a little more Saturday evening, so presumably the ponies are even muddier – and the seeps and springs and ponds are even fuller! We are relieved and grateful that the “omega block” brought much-needed moisture to our corner of the world!
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Also in the grateful category, thanks to Kat Wilder and to Suzanne Roy of American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign for posting the first in Kat’s series of “Mustang Tales: Bringing the Reader to the Range”! This first post records our meeting with Jen Maramonte and Suzanne last summer in Spring Creek Basin, where we were privileged to introduce them to the range and to several bands of our amazing mustangs. 🙂
Suzanne and the AWHPC team work tirelessly to keep advocates informed about threats to our wild horses and burros, as well as highlighting the good work being done by countless volunteers across the West (and elsewhere). Kat is working on a variety of “tales,” in a variety of formats, to highlight challenges faced by – and successes made by – advocates and BLM managers on behalf of the now-wild equines whose ancestors were instrumental in developing this country.
Join Kat on the (digital) range with the mesteños!
S’aka follows another band during a day of beautiful light in Spring Creek Basin.
Another example of a born-black-and-greying mustang – Maia. Her colors match the colors of Spring Creek Basin very well, don’t they?
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 