Todays ride

[kings6]

I'm getting ready to go in and get some hinge parts redone in a few weeks so I figured I better take advantage of the cold but dry weather to take a ride in the hills today. Once we got the rig into 4 wheel drive we were able to make our way through the ice on the roads and make our way up to the end of the road where we park. Most of the ride was spent off trail simply working our way through the reprod and blowdowns by following the elk and deer trails.
At one place I stopped to let Copper blow and shake the sweat off her ears and I just stared at the sunlit Cascade range about 100 miles to the east. I had clear views of everything from Mt Washington to the north to the tops of the Three Sisters in Central Oregon. The mountain in the center of this picture is Mt. Jefferson which is between Mt. Hood to the north and The Sisters to the south. We are fortunate in that we have a clear view of t. Jefferson from our house but to see the tops of mountains stretching over a couple hundred mountains is a sight I never grow tired of seing.

[rangersedge]

Beautiful.

[x101airborne]

Man, aint that somethin!

[ezekiel38]

Oregon is pretty and inviting from that elevation. I envy your time in the saddle. Glad you got out for a ride. Copper probably was too.

[kings6]

Not sure how much she was digging it packing my !80# plus saddle, britchen, martingale and bridle but she is such a good riding animal she just goes where ever I point her. Brush, berry vines, deadfalls, steep hills or whatever she just picks her way through. The only thing she doesn't like is when her ears start sweating! Mules use their big old ears as radiators and the base of each ear is where sweat first show up on her. Once it starts she shakes her head like a Kardashian diva trying to keep it from running done here head!

[bushog]

Thanks Robb,

Reminds me that I need to remember how lucky I am to live where I do...

We're both fortunate...

Now, if we could just get rid of many of the other people.

[rjm52]

That is wonderful...got to tour that area in 2008 while visiting a friend in Salem...

[bigbrowndog]

I recall driving from Idaho falls north to Montana and looking east and seeing the big Tetons covered in snow jus the other day, it was a sight, as you say. Being able to see across to another state is not something I’m familiar with here in central Texas

Trapr

[hunter966]

Man that sure is pretty! Glad you were able to go and do it, and thanks for posting pics for us not lucky enough to do it.

[squawberryman]

Buh-lest.

[blacktailslayer]

Robb,

Looks like another great day spent in the saddle! I was going to be up in the hills the same day but plans were change at the last minute and I didn't go. We would have been looking at each other across the valley!


Don D.

[bula]

Sounds nice, thank you sharing. I've gotten to see views like that from Rainier summit. It is strange to look down on moving thunder storms. Got snow squalled off a mountain in Yellowstone on the 4th of July,'83 0r '84 ? 

[kings6]

A little different today than on the day I went riding. Everything outside is covered in an inch or more of solid ice and even going down the driveway to feed Copper makes a guy look like Anton Apollo Ono! Luckily I have a good set of trekking poles with ice tips under the normal rubber boots so we could make it to the barn then over to the shop so I could finish up the last of the nativity orders. Luckily the shop had a big 125,000 btu propane heater and it worms that space up pretty quickly.

[kings6]

This is the same mountain in the first picture, Mt. Jefferson, just from my upstairs window this morning just before the sun broke over the horizon.

[rWt]

Lovely, Robb!

Thanks for posting