tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49881081659548324422024-02-19T11:48:11.662-07:00Longears and SourdoughA celebration of the mule hybrid that results from the cross between a horse and equinus assinus, or donkey, reflected in the eyes of a family fighting for its sanity against a tidal wave of urban sprawlDrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-10702944581651622102015-02-24T06:35:00.002-07:002015-02-25T12:35:29.686-07:00Trainee Suddenly Wakes Up Trainer: Ode to Fatherhood<br />
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One of my all time favorite sayings is "When you see a man on a mountain, you can be sure he didn't fall there."</div>
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Eight years ago, when we started our life with mules, we had never been around them. I had been on one once or twice as a teenager. I didn't know anything about them, and the one I had been on bucked me off on a lion hunt. But somehow, the tug I felt inside to learn the art of mule-skinning was a powerful force in 2007, so I started looking. It turns out that all of the good finished mules that I was interested in were too expensive for my budget at the time, but I had a chance to buy a nice Jack and a couple of mares. So I decided the 5 years it would take to produce something usable was worth the wait.</div>
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I hadn't quite anticipated the amount of good that learning it for ourselves would be for my kids. Especially my youngest boy kid.</div>
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<a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-john.html" target="_blank">Senator,</a> the red mule in these pictures, was Preston's first training project. We had no formal training in mule training...I just did the only thing that felt natural. I put the two together and let them train each other. It was the <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/02/of-mules-and-men-integrative-training.html" target="_blank">"integrated training method."</a></div>
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There were lots of bumps and bruises along the way, and by the time Preston had ridden Senator for two and a half years, I had to intervene and start riding Senator myself to break some of his bad habits. But OH! What we learned! And not without help. <a href="http://www.tsmules.com/" target="_blank">Ty Evans at TS Mules</a> rode with us a few times and very patiently helped us correct some of our techniques. </div>
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The whole process was a joyful one and it often made me reflect on the <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-seasons-and-beginners-rodeo.html" target="_blank">joys of Fatherhood.</a> I knew it was paying off when I watched the boy lead a string of 4 pack mules up onto Pine Valley Mountain to outfit a youth group for a conference in a pretty valley up top. Three of the five mules in that freight train were mules he trained himself. <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2014/06/mule-trainer-hero-packer-edition.html" target="_blank">The video of it is here.</a></div>
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One morning, we woke up, and Ty Evans was standing there on our mountain looking at Preston saying, "Hey kid... you are pretty good. How would you like to come spend some time with me this summer helping me train?"</div>
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One morning we woke up, and a neighbor who had just bought a fresh, green broke mule named Lolly was standing on our mountain saying, "Hey kid...I need someone to keep Lolly's saddle blanket wet. I need some help finishing her. Can I pay you to ride her 3 days a week?"</div>
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And that morning, as I stood on that peak enjoying the grand vista, and breathing that thin air, my heart became full of emotion. There aren't really words to express the kind of thanks bottled up inside of me...thanks to the Master of Souls that I didn't fall upon that mountain. The strained muscles and burned lungs were more than worth what I saw around me when I reached the summit of Mt Fatherhood.<br />
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(Update: I just came across this piece today that touches on how boys learn. We forget these things to our peril. <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150223/OPINION02/150229731" target="_blank">How our schools are miserably failing our boys.)</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So well trained and such a sweet disposition, we felt comfortable putting Casey's daughter on her that first summer of her training. It looks as if Casey will have Della's full sibling born over at his house in a month or two--his first mule.</td></tr>
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-32387733612439677772014-07-30T06:47:00.004-06:002014-07-30T06:52:18.683-06:00Southern Missouri Mule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Occasionally, we run into a business that treats us so well that we can't keep it to ourselves. In this case, I am offering an unsolicited shout-out for an online retailer who provided a level of service that one rarely sees these days. Kenneth Levine at <a href="http://www.somomule.com/Home.html" target="_blank">Southern Missouri Mule Outfitter and Equine Supply</a> helped me get 6 mules ready for a big parade on fairly short notice. I discovered these Rough Rider head stalls on his website and thought it would be cool to have a matched set of black ones fitted to each mule. Previously, I had just been using a hodgepodge of bridles that I constantly had to re-fit and cannibalize depending on which mules we were using at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I placed the order complete with matching tassels. Kenneth called me right away to tell me that he only had one black bridle in stock and that it would be a few weeks before he could get any more--wondering if I wanted another color which he did have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">When I explained that they were for a parade and that the date he expected to have them was after my parade, he said, "Let me call my Amish supplier and see what I can do."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Within a few days, I had everything I needed in my hands. Kenneth was very responsive to email and kept me informed every step of the way so I could react in time in case it couldn't be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I am very impressed with the Amish craftsmanship evident in these bridles. I am equally impressed with Kenneth's service at <a href="http://somomule.com/">SoMoMule.com</a></span></div>
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-821458064396243032014-06-29T08:39:00.001-06:002014-06-29T21:51:53.985-06:00Mule Trainer Hero: Retired Ranger Edition<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Here is another installment in the Mule Trainer Hero series that I am doing with my son as he rides the two 2-year-olds that we started this year.<br />
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I enjoyed the wisdom and stories that my friend, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1597361713" href="https://www.facebook.com/fnmybright" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">r</a>etired Forest Ranger Fredric Ybright, shared with us as we rode together through some of the recovering burn area on Pine Valley Mountain 2 weeks ago. He is seeing the mountain for the first time since retiring 8 years ago. Here is a little GoPro, saddle-eye-view footage for you Fred, and for those who want to see the mountain from a mule. This is a relaxing trip through lush grass, new quaky stands, and the remnants of once giant trees on a unique part of this giant Lacolith.</div>
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The music is a song recorded by my daughter Kailee.</div>
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DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-50683769695781138522014-06-08T21:32:00.001-06:002014-06-08T21:41:41.103-06:00Mule Trainer Hero: Packer Edition<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_50" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100003603720580" href="https://www.facebook.com/leon.gubler" id="js_49" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Leon Gubler</a><span style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a</span>nd I got to move a little freight last week
for a youth group that had a conference up on Pine Valley Mountain. This is
another GoPro style saddle-eye-view of the trail for those who grew up dreaming
of driving trains.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The main song in the middle is a song written
and performed by my daughters called "No Name."</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> This mule project that we started back in 2006
has paid great dividends for my family. Watching my 11 year old son lead
a 4-up string through a patch of rugged wilderness is a button-popper for a
father--and the close relationship we have formed in the pursuit of long-ears,
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A place I have written about on a few occasions, Hop Valley is one of the most beautiful places in Southern Utah. Most of it is private property adjoining Zion National Park. The landowner and the park have some sort of an understanding that hikers can hike the valley, and the park will give some small degree of latitude for the rancher's occasional stray cow that crosses the line.<br />
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For our mules sake, the water exposure in Hop Valley is as good as it gets. Having a little fun with the GoPro Hero camera makes it possible for you to come along and enjoy the saddle-eye view of this magnificent place:<br />
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DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-3397519414717270972014-05-11T14:54:00.003-06:002014-05-11T15:01:44.888-06:00Mules-Train-Boys-Train-Mules<br />
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Come and ride along with my 11 year old son, Preston, and me as we go out for some <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/02/of-mules-and-men-integrative-training.html" target="_blank">integrative-training</a>. On this trip, we are riding two and a four year-old mules who are full sisters. Catalonian Mulestangs--both born on my brother's place to a Catalonian Jack, and a born-in-the-wild mustang mare from the Sulpher herd in SouthWest Utah. Enjoy some POV riding among the <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/05/curban-guttered-mule.html" target="_blank">rapidly-developing neighborhoods in our back-yard</a>, and the bluffs around them, GoPro style. <br />
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Lulabelle, ridden by my son is the third hand-raised mule that he has started by himself. The first was <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2013/02/two-coiled-springs.html" target="_blank">Senator</a> who was <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-john.html" target="_blank">born at our place</a>. Preston rode Senator by himself for the first 2 and a half years, starting when he was six years old. At that point, I had to intervene and help Senator unlearn some bad habits, but the experience got Preston ready to do it right the next time. Currently, we have two 2-year-olds that he started this spring.<br />
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I cannot thank <a href="http://tsmules.com/Home_Page.php" target="_blank">Ty Evans at TSMules</a> enough for the gentle guidance he has offered along the way that helped solidify the things Preston had learned by experience. If you need a good mule or a good trainer, they just DO NOT come any better!<br />
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And me? I'm the lucky father who gets to share all of this with my mule-skinner boy!<br />
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DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-29889985576475532692014-04-02T07:54:00.002-06:002014-04-02T08:08:46.600-06:00Caanan Mountain FormationsEnjoy a little video journey through a few of the fantastic formations around Zion Nat'l Park. Caanan Mountain is difficult to access--you have to know the way in, and you have to be willing to cover some technically difficult terrain. But it is the prettiest of places!<br />
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-5171508939220342632014-01-19T08:44:00.002-07:002014-01-19T08:44:38.784-07:00Slo-Mo Mule<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="420" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/maUWIkXHaqk" width="665"></iframe><br />
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With agility unmatched in the world of equines, it is revealing to watch a mule jump in slow motion. <br />
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Video and photos compliments of our little outing last weekend…the last for a while for my daughter who leaves for South Korea in a few weeks. She often complained that all we had out here was "red rocks and cactus." I used to tell her that she better be careful not to jinx herself--she might end up living in a drab part of the world someday. I think she is going to miss this...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy New Year! Getting vertical Jan 1, 2014</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The excellent staff at SouthWest Vision</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wrangler Butts</td></tr>
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...have you seen the Milky Way reflected in a Wyoming, Windriver lake? Or shimmied through a slot canyon in the mighty Escalante? </div>
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...have you tasted fire-cooked trout that minutes earlier was swimming in an ice-cold Uintah lake? Or savored the succulent flesh of a Maine Lobster pulled from a roadside lobster-pot? </div>
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...have you watched the sunset make the Kolob Fingers blush a shade of crimson that'll bring a lump to your throat? Or gazed upon the morning shadow that Mt Nebo's triune peaks casts over the quaint village of Mona?<br />
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America! God shed his Grace on Thee! May tyrants, dictators, and pencil-necked bureaucrats alike tremble in fear of the boisterous ocean of Liberty that rings from sea to shining sea!</div>
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-12125704710696019062013-04-15T00:24:00.003-06:002013-04-15T00:24:38.120-06:00AirTimeThis amazing contribution comes from my good friend Steve Westhoff who is as real a cowboy as I have ever met. I have laid it out exactly as it came in the email to me. Stories like this need no embellishment. Enjoy! --pgooch<br />
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<b><i>Parker and Mitch, my two younger sons roped “Belle” and I branded her
with an iron heated in a fire. We tried for 3 years to catch her from the first
time we saw her. We put a bell on her neck so she would be easier to find and
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<span style="font-size: small;">A
collection of true stories experienced while owning a public lands ranch in
southern Utah on Fifty Mile Mountain. Cattle ranching with nothing to assist
you other than horses, pack mules, dogs, and ropes on roughly 60 square miles
of roadless desert wilderness has it’s challenges and rewards. Sometimes it’s
hot and dirty, and sometimes it has amazing adventures.Fifty Mile Mountain is really a mesa that runs from
Escalante, 50 miles to the Southeast, almost all the way to Lake Powell. Since
it is a mesa, the sides are nearly vertical and half way up there is a bench
that is about a mile wide that goes all the way around the mesa about 1000 feet
below the rim. When we go there, we drive 42 miles down the Hole in the Rock Road
and park below the Middle Trail, (the mesa is so steep only 5 trails have ever
been made through the cliffs). We use the middle trail on the north side. Where
we park is at 5000 foot elevation. We ride up through the cliffs and across the
bench for about 2 hours to get to the top at 7400 foot elevation. The top is
fairly flat and averages 3 miles across. I put some of my favorite pictures on
the internet a few years ago, (they are still there at
50pictures.blogspot.com). However, unless you know the stories behind the
pictures, they don’t have the same meaning. So, now I am writing the stories to
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<b><i>Satellite view of the Fifty, the green
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my son, Mitchell Westhoff and I, Steve Westhoff, were riding across the bench
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<b><i>On the bench, looking down into
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<span style="font-size: small;"> For years we have taken the cows off the back side of the
Fifty, down Mudholes Canyon and along the bench for about 6 miles and into a
big, 15,000 acre canyon called Rock Creek and a smaller canyon half way to Rock
Creek called Little Valley. There is nothing little about Little Valley when
you are looking for a cow because it is still 7500 acres. We usually put the
cows in Rock Creek and the bulls and horses in Little Valley in November and go
back and get them in March and April. Usually around New Years, I get my friend
Dale to take me flying, as the snow is usually too deep to get there by horse
back and Dale likes to fly and will take me in his plane if I will buy the gas.
Somewhere around $45.00 will pay for a 2 hour round trip to look at the cows in
the middle of the winter, not a bad deal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Part
of what’s great about flying with Dale is he and his Dad used to own the cattle
permits on Fifty Mile Mountain and the canyons on the back side and he can tell
you all about the old days while you are flying. Well, one time after Dale had
had his morning coffee, he took me flying and he was saying how when they owned
the Fifty, one of the cowboys was chasing a wild cow trying to rope it and as
they were running through the brush, he realized the cow was going out on a point
where there was no way off. For sure he was going to get his cow now! The
cowboy sped up, but also, the cow realized she was on a point and rather than
get caught she jumped off the end, and rather than let her get away the cowboy
jumped his horse right with her and as the story went, roped her in the air!
When they hit the bottom, however far down it was, he was able to hold on to
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I
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true but I remember reading about the cowboys in Canyonlands cornering a wild
cow on a ledge trail that went down to the Green River and rather than be
caught, she jumped off the ledge to her death. I had also heard the story about
Mac LeFevre chasing a cow in the bottom of the Escalante canyon and the cow
jumped over a ledge into Lake Powell to get away and Mac jumped his horse right
over the ledge into the Lake right behind her and swam out around her and
brought her back. Also, the first wild cow that Parker, my youngest son, caught
on the Fifty, back when he was 15 years old, the dogs had chased the cows up on
a rocky point and when we rode up, the cow threw herself off the back side and
I remember watching her spin around doing 360's on her side, instead of end
over end, as she slide down the slick rock about 30 feet to the bottom.</span></div>
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<b><i>This is Parker when he was 15
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<span style="font-size: small;">So I guess the
story could be true, but Mitch and I think we topped it because we caught our
yearling bull at the edge of a cliff and ended up castrating it in the air!
Here's what happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In
April 2012, right after Mitch finished his second year of college, I needed
somebody to help me get the last cows out of Little Valley and Rock Creek and
Mitch came down to help. We rode over the top and down Mudholes Canyon all the
way to the floor of Little Valley. Then we rode into the box canyon we camp in
and the 3 cows we were looking for were in it! Well rather than camp down in
the heat, with the gnats already out, we gathered up the cows and rode right
back up on the bench before dark. That night we camped at the spring at the
mouth of Mudholes Canyon figuring we would go into Rock Creek the next morning.
We had two pack horses and a mule with a harness on and we were leading them across
the bench. We were riding through the trees and we came around a corner and
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<b><i>My cows started out as a herd of
Longhorns, I have been using South Poll bulls, (Red Angus/Hereford crossed),
since 2005 with great results.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I stopped to look them over and saw one of my yearling steers
that I had not been able to catch last fall. I was wondering where the yearling bull was that I was also
looking for that is usually with the steer. Well, after being satisfied all the
cows were doing well, we started on and the next corner we went around, there
was that little bull, breeding one of my cows. I tell Mitch, "We can't have this because we are going
to have a January calf now". (Since our cows are out on the range 12
months a year and are never fed hay, we try to wait until the cows have been on
green grass for 50 days prior to calving. The desert feed is sufficient for a
dry cows maintenance during the winter, but a cow’s nutrient needs double from
30 days prior to calving and for 60 days after, so to time calving with the
spring green-up, mid-April and May works best for our ranch.). So Mitch and I
decide we need, (it was not a want but a need), to tie up our extra horses and
rope this bull and make him a steer.</span></div>
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<b><i>From Grand Bench looking over at
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<span style="font-size: small;"> It is some pretty rough country where we had found the bull
and pretty brushy so we put on our chaps, take the rifle scabbards off our
saddles so they won't get torn off as we ride through the brush, tighten our
cinches and take off after the bull. He weighed about 600 pounds and was expert
at ducking through the brush and under the trees. We each had a chance to throw
our ropes at him but could not quite catch him. Finally, we are running him
down a small ravine with Mitch right behind him and me on top of the ridge
trying to keep him down in front of Mitch. This ravine poured off a 200 foot
tall clay bank that wasn't straight down but was steep enough that you could
barely keep from falling if you were using your hands and your feet. So, as
Mitch was chasing this bull down the ravine, right when the bull hit the edge
of the drop off, he stopped, and right when he stopped Mitch threw his rope,
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"Dad, Help!" I'm thinking to myself, "When one of my boys yell
for help, as independent as they are, we’re both in trouble". Anyhow, when
I get around the tree and see Mitch standing there by himself, I ask him, “Where
is the bull?” Mitch says, “He jumped over the edge.” I say, “Where is your
rope?” Mitch says, “It's on the bull”. </span></div>
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tie up our horses and walk over to the edge and there is our bull, wearing
Mitch’s rope about 30 feet down, standing on a big rock about 4 feet wide and
sticking out from the cliff face about 8 to 10 feet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> We started laughing, asking ourselves, "What are we
going to do now". Mitch got out his camera and took some pictures. We
finally schemed up a plan, (Mitch's idea), that if he jumped down, caught the
end of the rope and jumped down along the close side of the rock that was
sticking out, that the bull would likely jump off the rock on the far side, if
he did, Mitch would dally the rope around a boulder. I was on the cliff above
the far side of the rock, and if the plan worked I was going to jump down and
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him dallied up so he was hanging off the rock on the far side and under me. He
was in the fetal position with his front legs and was trying to take the
pressure off the rope with his back feet. He didn't look like he was planning
to kick so I jumped down, whipped out my knife and castrated him in the air in
less than 30 seconds, maybe less than 20 seconds. I yelled for Mitch to let him
go and as he slid by I pulled the rope off of his neck. The bull went all 200
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I worked my way around to a ridge and was able to climb back
up. I got out my rope and tossed one end of it down to Mitch so I could pull
him up. We laughed and laughed saying, "Did we really just do that?"
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<span style="font-size: small;"> When we used to go with Quinn Griffin, whose family owned
the grazing permits on the Fifty for 37 years, as we would start to ride out
each morning, he used to say, "I wonder what adventure awaits us today?"
It seems the Fifty is always good for adventure and that day Mitch and I sure
had more adventure than we expected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">End.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Click here to for <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2008/02/thecowboy-of-wild-horse-mesa.html">"The Cowboy of Wildhorse Mesa"</a> that I wrote about Steve in 2008</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Click here for this <a href="http://www.southpoll.com/Winter_Newsletter_2013.pdf">fascinating newsletter about Steve by the South Poll Grass Cattle Association</a></span></div>
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-59160717479710000362013-03-31T21:06:00.003-06:002013-03-31T22:38:55.471-06:00Easter: Wellspring of Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">n remembrance of the Master of souls... He, who authored our Liberty, and then paid an infinite price for it. To know that He would have paid that unfathomable price, even if I were the only person in this big wide universe that needed it, causes my knees to bow and my heart to soar...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">For His ability and desire to heal every wound that mortality can inflict--wounds both physical and spiritual--causes me to pause in awe...</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">And that He did it, and does it, for one as wretched as I--one who is not worthy to "lick His boots"--causes me to look forward to the day I that can wet the nail prints in His feet with my tears.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">To Him who is called The Christ, I offer heartfelt thanks for my crack at life on this magnificent Earth--with all of its hazards and all of its rewards, all of its sorrows and all of its joys.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">He is Risen. And He Lives.</span></span><br />
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-69352767179908913442013-02-26T00:01:00.001-07:002013-02-26T07:20:03.042-07:00Like Riding a mountain goat...We especially love the winter riding in the red rocks of the SouthWest. Here are a few short clips from the past couple of weeks that show how sure footed the mules can be in technical, extreme terrain. Notice how easy they make it look. <br />
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The clip above fails to show the pool of water down below the rider's right side (as seen in clip three and four).<br />
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Notice that when the mule is down in the water, the shelf it stepped off is taller than the mule. Not shown here, but my son decided to take his mule along the serrated edge seen on the right--as shown by the rider in clip one who crossed this obstacle going up the canyon instead of down. The next clip shows a horse trying to go around this obstacle to the left.<br />
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As traumatic as it appears, the horse was not harmed and was back up in this canyon a week later.DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-12436890450188197292013-02-11T22:20:00.003-07:002014-05-11T14:49:47.872-06:00Two Coiled Springs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've written and photographed the beauty of the Haslem Trail several times for my blog. These honey-combed crimson cliffs lie East of St George Utah, and offer some of the reddest, most eye-popping, high angle scenery to be found anywhere.</div>
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The older posts can be found here:</div>
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<a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-almost-lost-my-ass.html">I almost lost my ass</a></div>
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The headliner video is a bit funny and shows why sometimes, it is just better to stay on than get off. The rest of the clips show mules at their very best. In the clip where we jump up into the narrow chute that takes us out into the open on top, you can see a bit of the difference between how the mule and the horse approach technical stuff. Our mustang Kate, surefooted as she is, doesn't handle this task as well as the mules.</div>
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I was out with a nephew and his girlfriend last week riding the Haslem trail. It is truly one of my favorite rides for the winter in this desert. Some of our most spectacular photos taken while riding have come from this trail and you can read the stories or see the photos <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2008/03/haslem-trailode-to-old-kim.html">here,</a> <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2008/12/high-octane-mule-on-dad-trail.html">here,</a> <a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-almost-lost-my-ass.html">here,</a> and<a href="http://flyingimules.blogspot.com/2009/04/optometry-intern.html"> here.</a></div>
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The girlfriend captured the headliner photo on my iPhone. This little part of the trail is slightly technical because it has a gradual bull-nose that doesn't begin to flatten until about nose high on my mule. To stand in front of it and contemplate a leap up still seems impossible every time I do it, yet every one of my mules will do it without skipping a beat--even the smaller ones who have even more vertical distance to leap.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>But the day alus comes to a man who walks straight through
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that fine, sunny day. Why, he had
rode old man Gooch’s ass all the way up Silor Spring’s gulch. Ear envy had gotten the better of him,
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>With grit and steely resolve he waded through them paparazz
like a red-hot knife through suet from a she-grizz. Flash bulbs were
a-poppin’ and the clamor of screamin’ fans hung thick in the air. Women-folk fell faint at every turn as
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completely unperturbed. Why,
he was unflappable, ingenuous, and guileless all at the same time. He just couldn’t trade that plain damn
horse sense for that plain damn mule sense, higher law or no. And so it ended, on that splendid,
much-accomplished day…much as it had started, without the faintest hint of
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<span style="font-size: small;">The pictures will do most of the talking for this brief update, which is more of a reflection on the admonition to "train up a child in the way he should go" than anything else. The other night as my youngest child and I sat on a ridge at sunset looking over St George, I was moved by the majesty of the job of "Father." I think the secret is starting them young, and then just pulling them right into your world where ever you can. Reality is a pretty good trainer. Integrating a kid into real life desensitizes their fears and gives them all kinds of confidence that they get to keep forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In contrast, I'm not so sure that the current societal trend of creating an alternate universe for kids with all of its childish themes and bubble-wrapped safety netting is all that helpful. My kids get tired of me reminding them that <i>life is not Disneyland</i>. That is not to say that activities and responsibility shouldn't be age appropriate. But finding that balance for me is all about gut-feel, not something I acquired from academia or peer pressure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, with a twinkle in my eye, you might hear me say, "I train my mules with my kids, and I train my kids with my mules." Getting them ready to be grown up is for keeps. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> And I can't think of a better vocation than kid trainer.</span></div>
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At 69 years old, he sat straight in the saddle. Samuels Lake stopped abruptly at the edge of a bally peak and Terry was filling his pouch with fish about as fast as he could reel them into shore. Rosie, his mule stood patiently on the last piece of meadow before it became part of the boulder strewn slope above. It sort of catches the eye to see a man fishing from a <i>sharply dressed, zebra-dun mule</i> in such a beautiful place. Even more impressive, the mule continues to ignore the sweet grass at her feet while her rider engages in one of mans' most ancient sports from her back. Then it strikes you. The man on the mule is missing his right leg. And suddenly... you know all you need to know about the character of the One-legged Mule Skinner of Samuels Lake.<br />
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It was Uintas 2012. After spending some annual wilderness weeks in the Windrivers, we decided we missed the Uintas--especially the basins between King's Peak and Fox Pass. When you see the photos that finish this story, you'll know why.<br />
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I knew my wife wouldn't like the extra riding, but this time we were going to camp in one of the most remote, least known lakes in the basin. Samuels Lake. It is on the map, but there is no trail there, and you sort of have to know the way in to find it. This year, we wouldn't have to compete for our privacy. <br />
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Trouble is... we weren't the only ones who made the same calculation. Great minds think alike.<br />
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Sometime midway through the week, a train of 7 mules arrived at Samuels Lake late in the evening. The light had dimmed and we could barely see them passing through the forest outside our camp. They were coming for the meadow at the foot of the lake near where we were camped. Saddle sore. Ready to be done. And now, frustrated at having their usual campspot occupied. They wondered if they could stand pressing on to a lake in the Davis chain. Instead, the mule train stopped and dropped camp in a meadow on the other side of the low, tree lined ridge that separated the meadow where we were tented from them. Our naturally curious mules, hobbled for the evening feeding, immediately headed over to pay them a visit. What could be better than fresh company for a mule?<br />
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Things were slightly tense for a moment as we sorted mules. They were local and tired. Though unsaid, and probably unthought by them, we knew that we were invading years of family tradition.<br />
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After a day or two of exchanging pleasantries and finding some reason for real friendship, we found ourselves fascinated by the one-legged patriarch of the Barker family who was fishing along the shore of the lake. "Mind if I shoot a few photos of you Terry?" I asked as we rode up. <br />
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"Take all you want! Say... where are you folks headed today? I'm bored." Came the reply.<br />
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The next hours were spent sharing a lifetime of memories and lore. He was tickled to see our two youngest boys (Brother Mike and I) riding mules with skill. And we were tickled to watch a man who <b>would not be denied</b> after living ten years without his right leg, ride a mule through some country that would make some two-legged men on better mules a bit nervous. "See that patch of trees over there?" he pointed. "I hid right over there with my mule tied and called that bull elk with a cow call." Turning and looking over the saddle we had just traversed, he continued, "He came right through that saddle and stood next to this little lake where I dropped him with my aught-six."<br />
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After spending more time with Terry, his son Clark, and his grandson Preston, it became clear that the Earth had not lost her salt. We enjoyed the felicitous neighborliness they exhibited. And we learned from their lifetime of mule packing experience.<br />
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Thank you fine friends, for adding life's salt to our week in the Uintas! It was so much more savory than if we had stayed in that sacred place alone. <i>I sincerely hope I get to ride again with the One-legged Mule Skinner of Samuels Lake.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and a splash of fuchsia at 12,000 feet</td></tr>
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There are a lot of ways to eat in the wilderness. If you are skilled enough, you can hunt-gather your meals. Most find it easiest to carry freeze dried food on their backs. But when you travel the back country on mules, the sky is the limit, and this trip had a 23rd anniversary built into the middle of it, so we ate very little freeze dried vittles in the Uintas this year. The morning of our anniversary looked like the lead photo.</div>
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The <b>Kodiak</b> <b>Berrycake</b> seen above is a simple favorite when we take the dutch oven anywhere:</div>
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<li><a href="http://www.kodiakcakes.com/">1 Box Kodiak Pancake mix</a> (no other wimpy pancake mix measures up in the opinion of everyone who tastes this rich product. This is an unsolicited, unpaid endorsement.)</li>
<li>Just enough water. Don't mix it too thin or over beat the batter for best leavening.</li>
<li>Fresh berries laid right on top of the rising mix (blue berries, raspberries, black berries, etc)</li>
<li>Bake until finished. </li>
<li>Slather it in real butter and <i>stingily</i> drizzle real maple syrup over it to bring out the hearty flavors of the berries and cake.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvest the Surf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What you find at 11,000 feet in the icy lakes of the mighty Uintas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake to Fork in about 20 minutes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet Vidalia Onions with taters over a bed of hamburger</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood fired rib steaks on day five. They left 107 miserable St George degrees under a thin block of dry ice in a coleman cooler, and stayed frozen until we could wait no longer to eat them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kodiakcakes.com/blog/">Kodiak Cakes</a> made my 23 year bride blush ;)</td></tr>
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<br />DrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988108165954832442.post-90878125544132978082012-07-14T08:09:00.000-06:002012-07-14T08:09:16.870-06:00The Character of an Ass<blockquote>There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can
be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about
perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler
animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead
of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are
left in doubt.</blockquote> Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead WilsonDrGoochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221551856612823748noreply@blogger.com0