A new app recently downloaded to my phone tells me that I hiked 5.5 miles to find Chipeta and her band on this particular evening in the wild “backyard” of Spring Creek Basin.
Every step was worth it. 🙂
Value, acknowledged
4 02 2022Comments : 4 Comments »
Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Waiting and watching
3 02 2022
Truly, I run out of superlatives for this handsome boy.
Here, he and his band, which has grown by a couple over the last few months, were nearly to a pond for their evening drink when they spotted another band coming from the far side of a nearby ridge. The other band was nearly to them before Sundance’s band went to the edge of the pond – where another band had been drinking just before THEY arrived. They finished their drinking in peace while the other band waited respectfully, then changed places with only a minimum of fuss between Sundance and the other (much younger) stallion.
They’re still fuzzy, with more winter still to come (and hopefully, some snow).
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Winter dreaming
2 02 2022
Although the “white spot” in this image – the always lovely Terra – is a very glorious and gorgeous “white” spot in an otherwise brown landscape, we could sure use some white, wet stuff on the ground!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The subject of gold
1 02 2022
Light sure looks good on a golden mustang, doesn’t it? 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Standout
31 01 2022
With the light and color, Seneca almost seems camouflaged, eh? Except that she’s much too beautiful to simply “blend in”!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Long may they roam
30 01 2022
You might see an out-of-focus mustang, but I see a representation of all our mustangs in Spring Creek Basin against a backdrop of Disappointment Valley with Utah’s La Sal Mountains on our northwestern horizon. The farthest background isn’t wandered by mustangs, but it’s wild land, just like Spring Creek Basin, and it’s home.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Sunset saunter
29 01 2022
Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna, our Sand Wash Basin beauties, are very much at home in Spring Creek Basin. They’re still with their stallion, Buckeye, who is a laidback kinda guy.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
No ‘shade’ on this girl
28 01 2022
Doesn’t she have the sweetest face and prettiest eyes? So engaged and curious.
While she and her bandsisters were in the shade of the hill that falls northward from the rimrocks, Temple Butte and McKenna Peak and Spring Creek Basin’s eastern ridges were still lit by the setting sun.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Winter shine
27 01 2022
Just a coupla beautiful mustang girls, napping in the winter sunlight. 🙂 Piedra and Kestrel have been friends since Piedra was young and Kestrel even younger (a baby!). They haven’t always been in the same band, but they have been for the last several years.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Winter glow
26 01 2022
Glowy, glowy pretty girls Mariah and Winona in their winter finery. Well, not much else need be said!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 