Dear Friends and Partners: It was a hunter who first picked it up, and he probably was a resident of the Hat Creek country itself. The year is anyone's guess, but it may be as early as when the last sheets of mountain ice left the Rockies—over 10,000 years ago. He may have been more recently a …
Black Ice in Deep Canyons
Dear friends and Partners "Are you OK?" I tried to gain eye contact of the obviously more than a little dazed driver. His jeans were freshly shredded, coat impregnated with the reddish ocher of Salmon River cliff-rock, and had a few fresh and bloody scrapes and bruises on his ruddy complexion. …
The Story of the Grulla Gelding
Often the horses I work with teach me more than I do them. The difficult lessons of patience and humility are best learned through experience and training and riding horses is full of experiences both positive and negative. There is the elation when we are both on the same page, moving as the same …
Safely Gathered In
Roxy and Bobby returned home this week. For Christmas, you might say. And indeed, they have, although they likely haven't a clue about the significance of the 25th of December. It's because the equine brain isn't founded on watches and calendars. Instead, they build extensive maps made 3 …
Lessons from These Times
Dear Friends and Partners. Interesting times, these. It seems just several weeks ago all that we heard about on the media was concerning the health of the planet; climate change dominated conversations then. Now, the focus has changed to something quite close: the health of us. And it has got …
“Gas” Fed Beef
Dear Friends and Partners, After pulling up to the pump I slid my credit card in the slot for a quick scan, and after the prompt picked my poison. Eighty-five octane with E10. Ten percent ethanol. It's ubiquitous these days, that pesky ethanol. It comes from corn, ironically now being …