Copp’ry Copper on a glistening winter day full of snow … and mud. But the mucky stuff didn’t deter this intrepid mustang tracker from enjoying the day and the mustangs. 🙂 And it was a beautiful day with beautiful horses!
Lookee here, handsome
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Great, gorgeous, golden girl
28 12 2016
The look of ages. Sweet Kestrelita.
It was very windy during the days leading up to Christmas, and that and the warm temps helped melt the snow on the yonder hills.
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Snow … no snow … snow …
26 12 2016
Technical issues have been challenging lately, as well as mud from melting snow in 52-degree late-December Colorado weather. Comanche, pictured above on Christmas Eve with Spring Creek canyon in the background, was enjoying the grazing – sans snow but with mud that packed his hooves and covered my boots.
Then we got snow again.
Then it melted again.
Then it snowed again.
And now it’s melting again. 🙂
That means Santa and Ma Nature have given us a whole lotta moisture for Christmas, and we love it!
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Merry Christmas!
25 12 2016
From (part of) our family to (all of) yours, we wish you all the joy and beauty of the season. It’s a time of peace and love and reflection on all that has gone on in 2016.
We have had another good year in Spring Creek Basin, and we’re thankful to many people for their support as we support our mustangs in this beautiful little part of the greater, wild world.
As we continue our work to cherish and protect these amazing animals, we work indirectly to pay it forward to other volunteers and mustangs throughout the West and the country. Our goal is to keep Spring Creek Basin mustangs wild in Spring Creek Basin, and with the progressive partnership of our Tres Rios BLM team, Mike Jensen and Justin Hunt and Garth Nelson, we are succeeding.
Our hearts and our voices are raised in joy. 🙂
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Lippy
23 12 2016
Corazon makes a funny face during a pause in his grazing in snow that was a few inches deep.
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Beauty in a beautiful land
22 12 2016
Reya shows off her fuzzy spots against a wintry backdrop of Round Top and the far blue mountains, the La Sals.
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A hike in the day of a mustang tracker
21 12 2016
This is why I mountain bike (well, and because I love to mountain bike) – to stay in shape to track mustangs. 🙂
Add a couple to a few inches of snow to that 5.62 miles, and 1,116 calories burned seems pretty measly. The temperature is a bit skewed because I carried the GPS in an inner jacket pocket; I don’t think the temp rose out of the 20s.
The green tag shows where I started: on Spring Creek Basin’s boundary along Disappointment Road. From there, I hiked north, then to the northwest. The farthest northwest point is the point at which I realized horses were waaaay over at that easternmost point. (Of course!) So I backtracked my tracks, then followed horse trails and avoided arroyos, heading southeastish, to the little flat loop – which is where the horses were.
The ziggy-zaggy line is where I walked (this was all on snowshoes) the bottom of an arroyo until I cut my original trail and followed it back to the Jeep.
Seeing this handsome youngster (Killian) makes it alllllllll worth it!
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Our views are the best views
19 12 2016
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!
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Ooh la la
16 12 2016
It’s hard. Really. To bear witness to so much gorgeousity.
Really, really hard. 🙂
Comanche and Temple Butte are Spring Creek Basin icons.
Love.
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Framed in beauty
15 12 2016
Photobombed beauties Terra and Aurora. 🙂 A happy circumstance of mustangs framed by a mustang and their high-desert home.
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