jodywy
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We rode the north unit today and were moving cows to the west unit on the forest today. We tailored north up the valley and unloaded at different canyons There about 3 canyons you can ride up from the bottom the rest are hanging valleys above the river and you would have to ride a Billy goat to get to the mouth of them.
Tenny and I rode up breaded canyon and only pushed out 3 pair near the top as that close to ant water, a lot of feed lower in the canyon. We pushed them over to Hemmert canyon and run them into the pairs that were brought up that canyon. We helped push them up and the herder asked Tenny and I to take the trail the south east up on top of a ridge to a salt block then head back off and ride the canyon below. Well we get on top to the salt and head south east and do a snowy river off a steep canyon wall. We get in bottom of the canyon and head up the bottom, first we come to a shale slide we get across the bottom and the canyon only about 15 feet wide here and there a few trees piled up across the canyon about 8 feet high , no way to get up around. We go back down the bottom thru tangles of wild raspberries and lead our horses up out going south thru down timber and thick brush and aspen. We finally make it to the top and it a little easier ride down into the next canyon we find a pair and a dozen yearling heifers and start pushing them west, we go about half a mile and run into some other riders they take them and Ten the herder and I ride back down and to another steep climb and dive into the next canyon Tenny's horse dose a slide down and almost flips till it hit a tree and got her feet. We fined about 20 pairs on the bog holes of water trailing west. We get them up to the west unit and everybody went to the shade and ate lunch, Except Tenny and I started the two hour ride to home. We got out at 2 pm after 8 hours in the saddle and I went down to bale got 4 round bales out when it started to thunder lighting down pour and hail hit. About a half inch in ten minutes. Went home and took a nap saw the trailers and horses go by around 5 and it had been a soft ten of and inch rain for the last 3 hours.
Oh another pair of riders did the snowy river dive after us but above the shale slide they went back up and side hilled for a quarter mile before the could come back down.
NO 4 WHEELER COWBOYS ON THAT RANGE
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Tenny and I rode up breaded canyon and only pushed out 3 pair near the top as that close to ant water, a lot of feed lower in the canyon. We pushed them over to Hemmert canyon and run them into the pairs that were brought up that canyon. We helped push them up and the herder asked Tenny and I to take the trail the south east up on top of a ridge to a salt block then head back off and ride the canyon below. Well we get on top to the salt and head south east and do a snowy river off a steep canyon wall. We get in bottom of the canyon and head up the bottom, first we come to a shale slide we get across the bottom and the canyon only about 15 feet wide here and there a few trees piled up across the canyon about 8 feet high , no way to get up around. We go back down the bottom thru tangles of wild raspberries and lead our horses up out going south thru down timber and thick brush and aspen. We finally make it to the top and it a little easier ride down into the next canyon we find a pair and a dozen yearling heifers and start pushing them west, we go about half a mile and run into some other riders they take them and Ten the herder and I ride back down and to another steep climb and dive into the next canyon Tenny's horse dose a slide down and almost flips till it hit a tree and got her feet. We fined about 20 pairs on the bog holes of water trailing west. We get them up to the west unit and everybody went to the shade and ate lunch, Except Tenny and I started the two hour ride to home. We got out at 2 pm after 8 hours in the saddle and I went down to bale got 4 round bales out when it started to thunder lighting down pour and hail hit. About a half inch in ten minutes. Went home and took a nap saw the trailers and horses go by around 5 and it had been a soft ten of and inch rain for the last 3 hours.
Oh another pair of riders did the snowy river dive after us but above the shale slide they went back up and side hilled for a quarter mile before the could come back down.
NO 4 WHEELER COWBOYS ON THAT RANGE
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