On the morning of the 3rd day, I got up around 5:30 again. The best light of the day is between 5:30 -8:30 am in the summer on the mountain. The first horse that I saw was Starman. He was close by.
At the age of 23 he seems to be doing pretty well. He is a little thin, but it does not seem to be stopping him. I saw him several times this trip and most were miles from where I had seen him last. He really gets around. When I saw him in May he was challenging Santa Fe for Judith. You can read about that post by clicking STARMAN I saw him briefly challenge Santa Fe on my first day here this trip.
Since he lost his band (Rosarita and Isadora) in the winter of 2011, he has been a lone almost every time that I have seen him. This trip I saw him briefly with Prince.
I saw another band a short distance away and started walking towards them. It was Morning Star and his band. I have never been this close to Morning Star. Usually I see him from a distance and have never been able to get good photos of him and his band, so this was really exciting!
Kaycee was nearby with her new filly. Jackson’s band had moved on. She waited until her filly woke up and then went to join them.
- Kaycee and Filly
I continued walking and saw Coronado and his band standing on a big patch of snow by some trees.
We decided to hike back to the campsite. We saw Jackson and his band. Kaycee’s filly woke up with an attitude!
After eating breakfast, we went to check on Lakota. On our way back we saw Blue Moon and Jackson bands.
Little Miocene was napping near by. We stayed and watched them for a few minutes. I think decided I should get some video, so switched cameras for the next hour. I like to take and work with video. It is just really hard sometimes to switch camera’s. At the end of this post I have two of the videos I have done of the Pryor Horses.
After making a brief stop at the campsite, we headed back down towards Penn’s Cabin. I saw Galaxy and his band napping in the sun. They did not seem to mind that we stopped to spend some time with them.
We left them and continue down towards Penn’s. Baja was there, keeping his band in line.
It was time for lunch, so we headed back to our camp. On the way I saw London off in the distance with Knight and Jupiter. I was relieved to see London.
After lunch I spent some time hiking around with Shawn and his daughter.
Then I checked on Lakota once more. The wind was picking up and there were little bits of snow falling. I went back to my campsite!
On the way back I saw the Jackson’s.
I am a prepared camper. I take enough clothes and other things to be able to survive for an extra two or more days if I need to. With the way the weather looked right now, I thought maybe this might be one of those times. Weather at 8,500 feet can be very unpredictable, even in June. The already challenging road becomes even more challenging when it is wet or has snow on it. We talked about heading down the mountain then, but decided to stay.
The horses were heading into the trees early tonight. I knew that meant something was coming. We watched band after band go by us and head down in the trees below us.
The light was really flat because of the storm coming in, but I thought I would share these with you anyway, even though they are not the clearest images.
Tecumseh and Gringo were still fighting. Tecumseh saw the boys and decided to come over and set them straight. Letting them know that they should not even try to come over to Gringo and his band.
It was getting even colder now. Our third day was coming to a close.
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Sandy
How is Lakota?
I don’t know how Lakota is. No one has seen him since last Friday. I have a friend up there today looking for him.
And thank you Sandy for letting me see through your eyes. D.
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Now that Kiva has foaled, I can’t believe so many two year olds have had foals! It’s quite a surprise! What happened to Garay’s band? Or was it Garcia? I can’t tell them apart!! LOL!
I am not sure it is Kiva, has foaled. It might be Fools Gold. Waiting to see a photo to confirm! I do think it is Kiva. When I saw her last week, her udder was filling… Garary’s band consisted of Gold Rush, London and Jasper. But he no longer has them. Jasper is with Two Boots, London you saw here in this post and Gold Rush is missing.
It does seem like a lot of two year olds have had foals this year!
We really did get to witness some good stuff, didn’t we?! I loved every minute of the trip, even tho our visit to the mountain contained the sadness of seeing Lakota suffer. At least we found out first hand that he was fighting to survive, and was able to ly down and get back up again. That fact really gave me hope. I really appreciate having you lead the way so I now know that I can get up the mountain OK with our truck. But it’s always more fun to be with someone who feels like you do about the horses. I hope the weather will be more cooperative so we’ll be able to sit out and visit more the next time. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom. ; 0 )
Thank you Linda! We did have a great time. It was one of my best on the mountain! I look forward to us doing it again! Yes, some warmer weather would be nice, but I would do it again, just the way it was! 🙂