Playing cowboy

[Sam Cobra]

http://www.northmtnoutfitter.com/

Taking my wife here for a weekend getaway once it warms up  

[GunClick Rick]

http://www.whitehorseranch.com/

[Sam Cobra]

Looks cool Rick..but not within two hours of my house 

[GunClick Rick]

About 3 hours from mine~~I hope to go there this year and see Wolfy~Might even get to be in a movie~

[ConfederateNorth]

I'd love to do stuff like that, but the wife is asthmatic and deadly allergic to horses.

[GunClick Rick]

Thank God she is not allergic to Old Mules,you'd be in a heap of trouble Baaa haaa haaa,oh my sides are hurtin,lol lol lol,i couldn't help it ,i hadda do it~~~~

[Sam Cobra]

I'd love to do stuff like that, but the wife is asthmatic and deadly allergic to horses.

Sorry to hear that!  I am blessed that my wife doesn't have those issues and she is always game to try my crazy ideas.  The website said that they have a three day "pack trip" where you head out on horseback and camp over night and then head out again and camp a second time before heading back to the "bunk house"...like a mini cowboy trip. 

[GunClick Rick]

Hey Sam, i live just below the big redwoods of Seqouia Park,on the way there ,there is a town called Three Rivers in the hills,all green and pretty in the spring.I used to ride alot with a good real cowboy friend of mine,We met a family there once that a couple time a year would do a 20 mile ride back in the mountains to his grandfathers original homestead,10 miles in and ten miles back.We would end up in this little flat valley area with a corral,rub the horses down and let them rest up for a few hours while they put on a bar b que,then drew prizes for the oldest rider,the youngest rider and such,nice little goodies too.

Now my cowboy buddy had done these things before,but i never had, i was in awe all the way up and back and is still one of the most pleasurable days of my life!!!We had great horses that he had raised,we drive up to Three River all the time for lunch and such and evrytime i go by that area i look up and remember,You are in for a real treat,i met folks from my own town i didn't know before but lived a few miles behind my dads mini mart,one was a gal that her dad owned a huge dairy,they were dutch very nice gal and he folks were some of our customers.

Just a side note if you ever saw the movie Monte Walsh he was like Lee Marvin and i always carried smokes in my shirt pocket for my buddy to bum,he had 4 kids at the time nd he was always broke,my pop had the store so i would usualy provide beer and smokes,he would tap me on the pocket and say,"give me a taylor made"He worked for the river district so we called him the River Ranger and i was his pal Curley Cadet.They even wrote a song about us.
When the rivers risin
and it looks like danger
never fear it's the river ranger.....And his pal Curley Cadet!!!!!!

Then you hold your hand up to your nose and blow like a calvary horn,EEEEEE EEEE EEE EEE

You gonna really enjoy it!!!!

[Sam Cobra]

Thanks for the story Rick, sounds like a great memory...the kind that make life worth living   

[GunClick Rick]

He told me he worked with Struther Martin at ranch somewhere,Struther was a cook..Told me they came by and picked him up one day in a limo and he was off to Hollywood...And my buddy wouldn't lie

[Two-Step]

One of these days, my family and I are hoping to go to Rollins Creek Old West Town.
http://www.rollinscreek.com

[Tuolumne Lawman]

My wife and I had horses for years, and rode even before I started CAS in 1994.  We did trail riding in the Sierras frequently, and dabbled at a little endurance training.  I also did team penning and cattle sorting.  I am too much of a klutz for roping, though.  I even did Civil war cavalry re-enacting.  I survived many horse crashes through the years. I even crushed my ribs (5 breaks in 3 different ribs) and bruised my liver 27 miles down the American river canyon when I ended up under my thoroughbred in my worst crash ever, galloping along the river.  I road back out, up the canyon all banged up, but survived.

In 2010, however, I had to give up horses.  I took a bad fall (NOT off  horse) and detached every rotor cuff tendon in my right shoulder (thanks to taking the tendon damaging antibiotic Levaquin), leaving the arm useless. After two rebuild surgeries (the first one failed, so I changed doctors), and a LONG rehab, I had to call it quits.  He said at 60, if I ripped it out again, there will be nothing they can do for me.  Now my wife and I ride 21 speed mountain bikes, though VERY tame compared to days gone by!  I do miss the smell of wet saddle blanket and leather, though....