• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

Trail Riding, lots of pictures

randiliana

Well-known member
Joined
Jun 15, 2005
Messages
946
Location
Saskatchewan, Canada
Here is what I did yesterday. These were all in the East Block of the Grasslands National Park. About an hour from where we live. Had a good time, and I think all the kids did too. They had fun traipsing up and down those hills. Probably more than I did, but they have NO fear ;-) .

Starting out, nice and easy
DSC04989.jpg


Some badlands pictures
DSC04994.jpg


DSC04996.jpg


DSC04998.jpg


DSC05006.jpg


DSC05018.jpg


DSC05019.jpg


DSC05049.jpg


DSC05047.jpg


Navigating hills, notice that they are ALL downhill pics, kinda hard to snap a pic going uphill ;-)

DSC05028.jpg


DSC05031.jpg


DSC05035.jpg


DSC05034.jpg


DSC05037.jpg


Some flatland pics
DSC05039.jpg


DSC05043-1.jpg


DSC05044.jpg
 
Thanks for the pics Randy. We are always going to go to the Block party but always seem to hear about the day after. OH well need to do more riding at home. Picking up bulls later this week.
 
I noticed all were wearing jackets...must be a little cool up there. That looks like a great place to just ride around and sight see...and not have to find cattle in all them holes and draws...lol Thanks
 
Jassy said:
I noticed all were wearing jackets...must be a little cool up there. That looks like a great place to just ride around and sight see...and not have to find cattle in all them holes and draws...lol Thanks

That was ranchland that's been turned into Grasslands National Park. Not cows have been allowed for years but they are starting to change their ways a bit. The West Block now has some buffalo. :roll:

Governments :x
 
How many miles was the ride? Interesting pictures but how did you stand riding in all that shade? :!: :wink:
 
DJL said:
Good pics; looks a lot like Drumheller. Looks like you had a good day for a trail ride.

It is a bit like Drumheller. We did have a good day. Looked like it was going to rain in the morning, but then it quit that and warmed up nicely.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Thanks for the pics Randy. We are always going to go to the Block party but always seem to hear about the day after. OH well need to do more riding at home. Picking up bulls later this week.

Well, darn, I could have posted about it ahead of time. We had a good time.
 
Jassy said:
I noticed all were wearing jackets...must be a little cool up there. That looks like a great place to just ride around and sight see...and not have to find cattle in all them holes and draws...lol Thanks

It started out cool, but later on it got a bit too warm for jackets.

They used to run cattle in there, before the park bought the land. Now it's just deer and antelope. In fact, they used to run yearlings in there, talk about an interesting roundup :wink: There were some huge washouts, 15+ feet deep and straight down on both sides. The guide hadn't been in there since they had run cattle in there, and all the crossings were washed out, we had to ride another mile to get across it.
 
nr said:
How many miles was the ride? Interesting pictures but how did you stand riding in all that shade? :!: :wink:

Probably around 8 miles once you figure going around and up and down those hills.

It was a nice change from the last month or so, at least you could stand to ride.....
 
kolanuraven said:
Oh...man....I can just smell the dinosaur bones in those layers!!!!

Yep, they are there. They showed us a couple places where you can just pick them up off the ground. It was very interesting. Also, we were told that place is one of the few places where they can find bird fossils, and they showed us where the glacier ended. There were some big (and I mean big) rounded stones, that fell off as the glacier melted. The stones had travelled with the glacier from up around North Battleford.

It was an interesting ride.
 
randiliana said:
kolanuraven said:
Oh...man....I can just smell the dinosaur bones in those layers!!!!

Yep, they are there. They showed us a couple places where you can just pick them up off the ground. It was very interesting. Also, we were told that place is one of the few places where they can find bird fossils, and they showed us where the glacier ended. There were some big (and I mean big) rounded stones, that fell off as the glacier melted. The stones had travelled with the glacier from up around North Battleford.

It was an interesting ride.

Kola-- the Canadian grasslands park country extends south into what was once looked at as a Wilderness area-- the BitterCreek area...Your buddy Billy Clinton wanted to make it into a wilderness area-- but the idea was dropped when it was shown that at one time much of the country had been homesteaded (I don't know why anyone would want to live there :roll: ) -So its now a protected area- But its the same kind of country--rough and grows a blade of grass every mile or two....Great hunting- but you have to go in on foot or horseback to get to most of it-- but there is some big deer hanging on that Canadian border...

Besides bones-- I've found a lot of arrowheads, warclub rocks and other Indian artifacts there....Same as that Wood Mountain country that Soap posted the pictures of-- lot of Indian culture and history in those areas...

The goal of the enviros was/probably still is to combine the Grasslands Parks and the Bittercreek area into one large buffalo range.....
 
Oldtimer said:
randiliana said:
kolanuraven said:
Oh...man....I can just smell the dinosaur bones in those layers!!!!

Yep, they are there. They showed us a couple places where you can just pick them up off the ground. It was very interesting. Also, we were told that place is one of the few places where they can find bird fossils, and they showed us where the glacier ended. There were some big (and I mean big) rounded stones, that fell off as the glacier melted. The stones had travelled with the glacier from up around North Battleford.

It was an interesting ride.

Kola-- the Canadian grasslands park country extends south into what was once looked at as a Wilderness area-- the BitterCreek area...Your buddy Billy Clinton wanted to make it into a wilderness area-- but the idea was dropped when it was shown that at one time much of the country had been homesteaded (I don't know why anyone would want to live there :roll: ) -So its now a protected area- But its the same kind of country--rough and grows a blade of grass every mile or two....Great hunting- but you have to go in on foot or horseback to get to most of it-- but there is some big deer hanging on that Canadian border...

Besides bones-- I've found a lot of arrowheads, warclub rocks and other Indian artifacts there....Same as that Wood Mountain country that Soap posted the pictures of-- lot of Indian culture and history in those areas...

The goal of the enviros was/probably still is to combine the Grasslands Parks and the Bittercreek area into one large buffalo range.....



Want a Southern visitor next summer???? Sounds like a cool place to do some prospecting for' goodies' for sure!!!!
 
kolanuraven said:
Oldtimer said:
randiliana said:
Yep, they are there. They showed us a couple places where you can just pick them up off the ground. It was very interesting. Also, we were told that place is one of the few places where they can find bird fossils, and they showed us where the glacier ended. There were some big (and I mean big) rounded stones, that fell off as the glacier melted. The stones had travelled with the glacier from up around North Battleford.

It was an interesting ride.

Kola-- the Canadian grasslands park country extends south into what was once looked at as a Wilderness area-- the BitterCreek area...Your buddy Billy Clinton wanted to make it into a wilderness area-- but the idea was dropped when it was shown that at one time much of the country had been homesteaded (I don't know why anyone would want to live there :roll: ) -So its now a protected area- But its the same kind of country--rough and grows a blade of grass every mile or two....Great hunting- but you have to go in on foot or horseback to get to most of it-- but there is some big deer hanging on that Canadian border...

Besides bones-- I've found a lot of arrowheads, warclub rocks and other Indian artifacts there....Same as that Wood Mountain country that Soap posted the pictures of-- lot of Indian culture and history in those areas...

The goal of the enviros was/probably still is to combine the Grasslands Parks and the Bittercreek area into one large buffalo range.....



Want a Southern visitor next summer???? Sounds like a cool place to do some prospecting for' goodies' for sure!!!!

Come on up Kola-- But I'm not sure how much access they give for bone (fossils) or artifact hunters anymore-- almost all Federal land and now with the "Protected" status its even more restricted...

I know in the county south of me they have a big stink going right now because the Feds found out or anyway claim one of the "digs" was on BLM land....Last I heard they'd shut everything down-- probably writing tickets like they're going out of style :roll: Up until 10 years ago, I did't even know the BLM had cops- Sheriff used to handle any problems they had--- now we got a BLM Ranger living in the county....
 
Oldtimer said:
kolanuraven said:
Oldtimer said:
Kola-- the Canadian grasslands park country extends south into what was once looked at as a Wilderness area-- the BitterCreek area...Your buddy Billy Clinton wanted to make it into a wilderness area-- but the idea was dropped when it was shown that at one time much of the country had been homesteaded (I don't know why anyone would want to live there :roll: ) -So its now a protected area- But its the same kind of country--rough and grows a blade of grass every mile or two....Great hunting- but you have to go in on foot or horseback to get to most of it-- but there is some big deer hanging on that Canadian border...

Besides bones-- I've found a lot of arrowheads, warclub rocks and other Indian artifacts there....Same as that Wood Mountain country that Soap posted the pictures of-- lot of Indian culture and history in those areas...

The goal of the enviros was/probably still is to combine the Grasslands Parks and the Bittercreek area into one large buffalo range.....



Want a Southern visitor next summer???? Sounds like a cool place to do some prospecting for' goodies' for sure!!!!

Come on up Kola-- But I'm not sure how much access they give for bone (fossils) or artifact hunters anymore-- almost all Federal land and now with the "Protected" status its even more restricted...

I know in the county south of me they have a big stink going right now because the Feds found out or anyway claim one of the "digs" was on BLM land....Last I heard they'd shut everything down-- probably writing tickets like they're going out of style :roll: Up until 10 years ago, I did't even know the BLM had cops- Sheriff used to handle any problems they had--- now we got a BLM Ranger living in the county....


Didn't they have to bring in the surveyors cause the dig was only 10 ft over the line or extended on to BLM land.
 
I'm pretty sure I know which dig you're talking about and it was only a matter of about a meter on the ' yonder' side of the line.

I HATE trying to decipher those BLM maps.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top