Fishtailing in a Winter Wonderland.

Let me tell you how much I love being back all day every day doing what I love... without school.  

Anyone who knows me at all knows that once I set my mind on an adventure theres no backing down.

So on saturday when it was snowing,  you better believe I was still heading up the canyon! 

I turned off at vivian park and headed up the road to big springs... except the roads weren't plowed

and I got to test out my insanely good truck and trailer driving skills kicking it in 4high and fishtailing up the hill... poor Arizona swaying in the back!

Finally made it up there and met up with the guys and they took me on a long ride around the mountains and it was beautiful! 

I mean look at this landscape

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Anyway. These boys had "restored" a cabin they'd found years before and even put in a tent stove and brought up food and slept there the night before. It was like a Jeremiah Johnson cabin it was so cute!

Gus had to leave early so me and Kyle hung out at the cabin for a while

While we were sitting there... we heard a snap from outside.  We looked outside and our horses were gone (along with my keys and phone in my saddlebags) not to mention my brand new headstall...

oh.... and that high maintenance horse too. 

So I laughed. he finally laughed too and we started walking back to the trucks.  There were lots of streams on the way back so I'm so grateful someone was there to help me from falling on my face walking across logs and slippery rocks in cowboy boots.  

Thankfully we started seeing more hoof prints and tracks from a pole being dragged on the ground.. 

And then I got to start my first snowball fight of the year! 

And we made it back to see the kiddos just standing by the trailer looking at us like... "where ya'll been?"  

All and all... I love winter rides, little cabins, white-washing, waterproof cowboy boots and people that are just as crazy ambitious as me. 

More to come!