Southern Alta for Katy
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Canadian_Cowgirl
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Wow, beautiful land!! Good job now you just make me want to go even more!! :shock: :shock:
Thanks!!!
Katy
Thanks!!!
Katy
Canadian_Cowgirl
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ok, i would love that!! 
ill have to hitch to your place! 
Jk id never hitch!!
Katy
ill have to hitch to your place! Jk id never hitch!!Katy
Canadian_Cowgirl
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oh wow, that is breath taking!! 
Katy
Katy
The Cowboy trail is a hwy in Alta,we traveled it from Olds to Waterton.
I don't know why those other pics sized like that and the Gondola one came out right...Oh well. Don't hitchhike,get to Sask.somehow and then get a ride with Angus,he knows how to get to our place...we'll take both of you on a trip around the province I love with all my heart{still hate the Oil boom though :? }
I don't know why those other pics sized like that and the Gondola one came out right...Oh well. Don't hitchhike,get to Sask.somehow and then get a ride with Angus,he knows how to get to our place...we'll take both of you on a trip around the province I love with all my heart{still hate the Oil boom though :? }
Canadian_Cowgirl
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lol i could get to saskabush but he dont drive! :? :? Or yall could come to the big summer fair here, and pick me up and i can give you a kitten and go back home will yall! :lol: :lol:
Katy
Katy
Jigger Boss
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What?? :shock: No pics of the best place on earth?? :shock:
The Ya Ha Tinda Ranch!
The cowboy trail is Hwy 22. I use to live just off hwy 22 north of Cochrane. I loved it there, but I don't love whats happened to
that area. :x
The part that is called the Cowboy Trail runs from Hwy 3 in the south to Rocky Mountain House to the north.
The Ya Ha Tinda Ranch!
The cowboy trail is Hwy 22. I use to live just off hwy 22 north of Cochrane. I loved it there, but I don't love whats happened to
that area. :x
The part that is called the Cowboy Trail runs from Hwy 3 in the south to Rocky Mountain House to the north.
Just soooo happens Jigger somewhere in my pics I do have Ya Ha Tinda,I'll look.Gregs going in May with some friends to Ya Ha Tinda,your right,one of our best kept secrets :wink:
Greg and I go to Little Elbow riding....the view off 'powderface ridge :shock:
Greg and I go to Little Elbow riding....the view off 'powderface ridge :shock:
Maple Leaf Angus
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Boy-o-boy Mrs. Greg, when the sky turns green in Ontario, we head for cover and don't call it beautiful! :wink:
And when I was in the gondola at Banff, i couldn't see the mountains - my eyes were squeezed right tight shut in sheer terror. :shock:
The kids and wifey thought it was kinda funny. I sure didn't! The wind had that thing swinging about 500 feet side to side. Or at least it seemed like it!
And when I was in the gondola at Banff, i couldn't see the mountains - my eyes were squeezed right tight shut in sheer terror. :shock:
The kids and wifey thought it was kinda funny. I sure didn't! The wind had that thing swinging about 500 feet side to side. Or at least it seemed like it!
Jigger Boss
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Mrs. Greg, I've never been to Little Elbow. Is that the place that you have to put your horses in tie stalls and you have to camp like a half mile away from them?
If thats the place we've had friends that rode that area, they had their horses in the little ties stalls and when they came down from the camp to saddle up, they found their horses moved tied elsewhere.
. I would never go there just for that point alone :shock: . I don't take kindly to someone screwing around with my horses.
At the Ya Ha, I can have my horses right with me at all times.
May is still pretty chilly there, make sure Greg takes plenty of warm clothes, and blankets for the horses wouldn't hurt.
MLA , :lol: :lol: A friend of mine from Ont was scared to go up on the gondola, so at least you did better than her. :lol:
Here are some Ya Ha Tinda pictures.
Ya Ha Tinda gates.
Big Horn Falls
If you look close you can see a grizzly and her cub in the river.
Big Horn Sheep
Red Deer River
My friend from Ont.
Big Horn Falls from top
If thats the place we've had friends that rode that area, they had their horses in the little ties stalls and when they came down from the camp to saddle up, they found their horses moved tied elsewhere.
. I would never go there just for that point alone :shock: . I don't take kindly to someone screwing around with my horses.At the Ya Ha, I can have my horses right with me at all times.
May is still pretty chilly there, make sure Greg takes plenty of warm clothes, and blankets for the horses wouldn't hurt.
MLA , :lol: :lol: A friend of mine from Ont was scared to go up on the gondola, so at least you did better than her. :lol:
Here are some Ya Ha Tinda pictures.
Ya Ha Tinda gates.
Big Horn Falls
If you look close you can see a grizzly and her cub in the river.
Big Horn Sheep
Red Deer River
My friend from Ont.
Big Horn Falls from top
Shelly
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Geez, Mrs. Greg and Jigger Boss, now you have me wanting to go on a road trip! I love Alberta, especially those majestic mountains. Some day I'm gonna move there and live out the last of my days gazing on the beauty of them.
Tap
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That is some magnificent looking country Mrs. Greg. I am also going to have to visit there someday. I knew Alberta was scenic, and you verified that for me. You are lucky to live near any of that country. Post more. :wink:
Tap,Alberta is a beautiful province,we have everything rolled into one.We have mountains,lakes, badlands,prairie,rivers,foothills,I love my home :!: We would be pleased to have you come visit our province :!: Jigger...you surprised me when you said you've never been to Little Elbow yet you lived by Cockrane,its maybe 45 minutes from there.Theres staging areas for day trips,the campground with stalls,we camped just across from our horses and nobody ever touched them :???: But mostly when we go we pack out to a back campground and we hobble the horses in camp,they camp right beside us.The trails are really nice the only VERY annoying problam is the bikes,once in a while they meet the horse trails...and we know how rude veggie eating tree huggers can be :evil:
Greg often camps in Ya Ha tinda in May...got stuck in snow storm there one year.I loved riding through the herds of Elk at ya ha,and riding the top of the falls....I hate that the bathroom facilities are really 'crappy' for tenters
Jigger Boss
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Its not all that uncommon for a snowstorm in May there :lol: errr even over Thanksgiving weekend.
Little Elbow is in the Kananaskis, not far from Bragg Creek. I've been by the campground but didn't stop to have a look. Too crowded for me. The beauty of the Ya Ha Tinda is that there are no motorized vehicles allowed beyond the Big Horn campground and camping is still free there as far as I know. . Unfortunately some citiots stray to the Ya Ha in their huge 70' motorhomes and sit and bit*h about the horses being there. :roll: :?
We didn't do any riding in the "Calgary area corridor", we always went north to try and avoid the crowds of citiots. :roll: We rode a bit in the Porcupine Hills west of Claresholm though. Its nice there to ride, the hills there are deceiving on how steep they really are. :shock:
The Big Horn campground has put in some fairly decent outhouses in the last few years. The last couple of years we camped in the Eagle Creek campground, just outside the Ya Ha gates. Not as many people and a whole lot less noisy. Any time we camped in the Big Horn, we got stuck beside loud obnoxious all night partiers :roll: Might as well of headed to the city to camp. :roll:
Where all have you rode there?. Have you been to Hidden Falls, Ribbon Flats, Eagle Lake, the Dog Rib, Chinaman's peak?. Been back to the Banff park boundary?
I sure am going to miss riding the Ya Ha Tinda :cry2:
But we have new places to explore here without even having to trailer out.
Tap, by all means go visit AB, its beautiful, but do it very soon before there are way too many people in the mountains and all the gorgeous ranch lands are lost to urban sprawl, its happening faster than anyone thinks.
:x
Wonder when the government is going to wake up and actually see whats happening to the open spaces? :roll:
Little Elbow is in the Kananaskis, not far from Bragg Creek. I've been by the campground but didn't stop to have a look. Too crowded for me. The beauty of the Ya Ha Tinda is that there are no motorized vehicles allowed beyond the Big Horn campground and camping is still free there as far as I know.
. Unfortunately some citiots stray to the Ya Ha in their huge 70' motorhomes and sit and bit*h about the horses being there. :roll: :? We didn't do any riding in the "Calgary area corridor", we always went north to try and avoid the crowds of citiots. :roll: We rode a bit in the Porcupine Hills west of Claresholm though. Its nice there to ride, the hills there are deceiving on how steep they really are. :shock:
The Big Horn campground has put in some fairly decent outhouses in the last few years. The last couple of years we camped in the Eagle Creek campground, just outside the Ya Ha gates. Not as many people and a whole lot less noisy. Any time we camped in the Big Horn, we got stuck beside loud obnoxious all night partiers :roll: Might as well of headed to the city to camp. :roll:
Where all have you rode there?. Have you been to Hidden Falls, Ribbon Flats, Eagle Lake, the Dog Rib, Chinaman's peak?. Been back to the Banff park boundary?
I sure am going to miss riding the Ya Ha Tinda :cry2:
But we have new places to explore here without even having to trailer out.
Tap, by all means go visit AB, its beautiful, but do it very soon before there are way too many people in the mountains and all the gorgeous ranch lands are lost to urban sprawl, its happening faster than anyone thinks.
:x Wonder when the government is going to wake up and actually see whats happening to the open spaces? :roll:
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LOVE that....got to remember that one!!!
LOVE that....got to remember that one!!!
