Tenaz and his young mares head out to graze after a session at one of the water catchments (the trough is full after last week’s rains if not the tank) in the day’s last glorious light (and not-so-welcome heat).
The haze of heat
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Dry then, rainy now
21 06 2024
I wish I had a pic of rain … because we’re getting it (as of the drafting and scheduling of this post Thursday night). Finally. 🙂
Meanwhile, enjoy a pic of Chipeta moseying along with her band on a windy-dry day above Spring Creek canyon with Utah’s La Sal Mountains dim in the background.
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Home, sweet home
18 05 2024
One more of Hollywood from that gorgeous evening high on the ridge below Brumley Point. What a handsome boy in a glorious place. We should all be as lucky as Hollywood. 🙂
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Winner: Best nap spot
13 05 2024
More Hollywood. … Yes, he was very relaxed on this very windy, dusty, hazy day in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Just sauntering along
9 05 2024
Ah, to be wild and free in such a glorious place. 🙂
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Worth the crawl
2 05 2024
If you’re afraid of heights, you’d have had a hard time hiking with me to this spot … because I had to crawl, on hands and knees, hoping the wind wasn’t stronger than my body weight (no chance of that –ha!) because the width of the finger of shale I crawled up on to get to where I’m sitting on the ground to take this pic (below what you can see) was not much wider than my four-square hands and knees. Let’s just say that I didn’t take in the view – or the drop to either side – until I got to this point and shimmied around onto my derrière!
What. A. VIEW!
If I say that frequently about Spring Creek Basin, who could blame me – or argue? 🙂
Bonus: It’s starting to look a little green, eh? … Just a little?!
Bonus No. 2:
I knew I was going to find Sundance’s and Storm’s band up top (you think I did a death-defying hands-and-knees crawl for my health!?), but I also found Mr. Hollywood! This pic can’t begin to do justice to this view: It’s still a ridge, though it’s (much) wider than where I crawled up. The horses had already moseyed to the far end by the time I crawled and walked up to this point, which is just above and behind my spot in the first pic. You might have to zoom in to see them.
The horses take me to all the very BEST places! 🙂 There will be pix of them to come in future posts.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that although the horses didn’t follow my route UP (!!!!), they had been DOWN that little ridge – at least to the end – by the existence of desiccated manure. (Really, you find it in the craziest places!)
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Moseying into spring
21 04 2024
If drought is measured by snow on the mountains (which it seems to be?), then we’re in great shape!
If drought is measured by the lack of rain, snow or other moisture on the land where drought is being observed (which it should be!), we’re in rough shape.
What Corazon knows is that his family is happy, healthy and intact. All is well with his world. There’s something to be said for not worrying about what’s to (probably) come. 🙂
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Rimrock edge
19 04 2024
You know how, when you’re a kid (some kids … me, for example), the edges of heights don’t bother you? You can stand there, look over, look out, and you’re so confident of your balance, your groundedness to the earth, that you can’t imagine any danger? Then, when you’re an adult (some adults … me, for example), the sight of kids or animals at the edges of great heights gives you the willies, makes the ground under your own feet seem unstable, and you really want who/whatever it is to move away from the edge RIGHT NOW?
See those rocks behind/left of Dundee? They mark the rimrock edge at Spring Creek Basin’s western boundary.
I had walked up the hill where the band was grazing, and though heights bother me a bit more as an adult than they did as a kid, when at the top of the rimrocks, the desire to look over the edge, at the view, is strong. Because … what a view!
The edge of the rimrocks, which form a natural barrier for Spring Creek Basin, is in the near foreground toward the upper right. The road below is the road from the main road in Disappointment Valley to Spring Creek Basin. This view is looking northwestish across Disappointment Valley toward Utah’s La Sal Mountains.
The view looking southwestish. The line of Disappointment Creek is in the far right distance.
And looking more northish.
As for Dundee, she obliged my nervousness so near the edge and headed back down to her friends and Buckeye. Whew. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Post-eclipse
9 04 2024
Mysterium enjoys a breezy nap a few hours after the eclipse yesterday. Here in Southwest Colorado, we had mostly cloudy conditions (and we were well outside the path of totality) – with a beautiful full halo around the sun in the morning! I’m not sure whether that had to do with the eclipse or ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, but it was cool.
We didn’t get any moisture, but it might have been snowing over Utah’s La Sal Mountains at various times, and up-valley from Spring Creek Basin and in the higher elevations, it sure looked like it snowed later in the day.
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Caughtcha lookin’
25 03 2024
This young stallion is following a bigger band – at a respectful distance. Even from the other side of a little ridge, he keeps an eye on the other horses.
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 