izze90 wrote:

Wow that looks like so much fun!! Very beautiful.I am kind of biting my nails over that rope that's running under the horses tail. *Imagines rope getting pulled tight & horse bucking the rider over the cliff*
Ah the beauty of a well trained trail horse. This trail was not only the very beginning of the trip but also the last leg, which was when I took the picture.

We had a few wrecks, one of the mules rolled down the mountain, Echo untied himself two different times while I was adjusting a mule pack and ran back down the trail, twice came back at a whistle (thank god). BIL's mule and one pack mule took off after Pete untied himself and the pack mule was tied to him. There was barely anything left in the packs, it was scattered .5 mile down the trail. We couldn't find the Pete the riding mule for an hour. We had to cross a wooden suspension bridge over a raging river and the whole bridge swayed back and forth when we were all on it at once. ( we went separately on the way back.) lol

We were a mere .25 mile from our destination, the Chinese Wall, (a huge limestone rock spine that is 500 feet high and runs for miles in the heart of the Bob. Few have ever seen it, as it is only accessible on foot or horseback) when we hit snow up to the horses bellies. We could go no further, mind you this was the first week in July.

Awesome, awesome trip on my crazy ASB show horse that had never been in high elevations, rode in a pack string, high-lined over night.

That 8 week shoing job left my farrier in amazement. His shoes were no more than a thin piece of sheet metal.

If you are not faint of heart and you ever get the chance to do a trip like that, do not turn it down.





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