Spirit is sporting quite the shaggy winter coat. It’s a little ruffled with muddy bits, but all the better to insulate against those bitter breezes! (Isn’t she the cutest?!)
Super shaggy winter girl
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Steamy
13 12 2021To illustrate the chill still in the air a couple of days ago after our recent snowfall, two images of lovely Chipeta are required:
It’s still frustratingly hard to see in these images, but Chipeta was blowing out steam with every breath. In person, backlit, it was so much easier to see! Chilly, chilly. 🙂
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So many seasons
12 12 2021
Thanks (!) to colllllllddddd temperatures (note that clear turquoise sky), snow lingers on McKenna Peak and Temple Butte. Lower, Houdini and her bandmates have to slog through soggy soil where that wonderful snow is melting – melllllltttttinnngggggg! – into ground that very much needs it.
Houdini, our grand dame of Spring Creek Basin, has seen snow on the heights and has slogged through winter mud … how many seasons? Unknowable … infinite … many, many, many. We’re fortunate to share even a few with her.
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Their basin, our basin
10 12 2021
From Sand Wash Basin to Spring Creek Basin … the common denominator is wild.
Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna (still with their grey boy Buckeye). Fuzzy, round, lovely.
Three wildly beautiful girls in the most best place. 🙂
P.S. We’re getting rain!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Channeling
9 12 2021
Does this guy know how to strike a pose or what?
Just Skywalker. Doin’ what Skywalker does. 🙂
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Grey that glows
8 12 2021
Terra = of the earth.
So true.
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Fair Raven
7 12 2021
Our fair lady? 🙂
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Goings-on
6 12 2021
Dark ponies watch a scuffle between their stallion and another band down the ridge and across a seepy arroyo.
There’s not nearly enough snow on the far slopes of Utah’s La Sal Mountains. They rise above deserts in all directions, but they should be gowned in snow by now.
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Almost black and white
5 12 2021
Late-day low-sun-and-clouds backlit silhouette upon a ridge.
One admiring one-other, as we humans so often admire them.
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Hero of his story
4 12 2021
After a not-so-brief discussion of terms over a mare with a neighboring stallion, Kwana trots back to his own mares. Fortunately for the young stallion, though Kwana successfully separated him from his mare, apparently the better part of valor (?!) occurred to him (!?), and he returned to his mares without the acquisition of a new one. The young stallion returned to his girl and made a show of snaking her away up a far ridge and beyond, while Kwana did the same with his girls – in the opposite direction.
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 