May 2013
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Sunlight Moments April 2013: The Power of...
Dewey Peak: Supreme Court Justice Douglas was an avid mountaineer. In the middle of the last century, he wrote, “Of Men and Mountains,” a memoir of growing up in the mountains of the Northwest. He remembered and honored the counsel of a mentor, Jack Nelson whose language uses “man” in the general way of times past. Whether hiking, backpacking, riding, or packtripping, we...
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April 2013
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Sunlight Moments, March 2013: Wrangling at Elk...
Elk Creek Ranch strives to offer children an authentic western ranch experience. Horses are central to our program with trail riding, barrel racing, colt training, horse care, and packtrips into the surrounding wilderness country. In recent years, Elk Creek has added wrangling to the list of horse experiences, and the ranchers take special pride in their turns at wrangling the horses into the...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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Horses: Poetry in Motion
From the day they are born to the day they pass, whether on the flat trails on the floor of Sunlight Basin or on the steep, rocky slopes of Trout Peak, whether walking and grazing through a meadow or racing ahead on a morning wrangle, horses move. And they are a beauty to behold. Sanzi was only a few days old when we took her outside for the first time. After a few halting steps and stumbles,...
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