Bounty from Betty's green houses

Sort of underneath the carrots are some onions that don't really show.
We'll eat so good tonite!  Thank you Betty.

Cattle Move on Pinion Ridge

We met all the others...there were 29 of us at the bentonite pile.  We split up in to two groups..we took the low road..and gathered and pushed cattle.

This is as the cowboys were gathering.

This is our bunch going up the 2nd level.  It was another cool bugless day that went pretty well.

Riding on the Upper Green again!

There have been bear kills left and right up there.  This is part of the herd that blew through the pasture fence the other day because of the bears.  Six of us put them back...and it was all we could do.

These moraines are a cuss to move cattle through, especially when they don't want to go that direction.  They did not want to go back up there. In the middle of the photo at the very bottom which is the Crow Creek crossing and gate..are the ones they are starting through the gate.  We are way back up the ridge with the back end of over 400 head.  We took them about two miles in.  This photo doesn't do the steepness and rocks justice.

The day was gorgeous for the job however.  Cool, and no bugs.
Pictured are Coke Landers, Charles Price, Mike Beard, Bob..and of course your blog photographer.
Jill, the rider from the Bend camp had already headed home.

Bull Day..it went well.

Except Ty high-centered in a deep washed out rut and he was in the lead of two other trailers with bulls.  Albert's stock truck and truck and trailer were at the cattleguard waiting for these guys to unload.  Everything has to be unloaded at once, because they are not easy to hold.  The drive went exceptionally well.

So he unloaded his load..the bulls you see in the photo below, and we drove them up to the cattle guard where everyone else unloaded and we were on our way.

 

 

 

We ate a very late lunch at the Kendall Valley Lodge aka Elk Ridge.  Sandy and Justin Wright have it now.  It was a good meal.

Fly In at Big Piney Airport....baby antelope...drive up Gyp Creek down Moose Creek to Green River Lakes

Dick Klaber was the "line boy" when we flew in.

Locals brought their old and restored cars..it was fun.

This doesn't really show how many people were there.  A lot of the bridge club and "substitutes" were there.

These baby antelope are right across from Kathy Kerback's house.

The title doesn't mention we also went to The Place for their free hamburgers.  They were cooked outside, and great.  We don't know how their auction went.

Halfway down Moose Creek we counted over a hundred head of elk...stringing across to get a drink.  We watched them for fifteen minutes.

This little water fall and flowers were so beautiful.

 

 

Morning Flight

Green along the Green River

Kinkey Cr landing strip...we didn't land.

Little bunch of elk by the dead trees on the left..

Green River Lakes

A Photo from Yesterday...

A shot of White Rock aka Cat Ears and a little bit of Square Top from Mud Lake while we were holding cows to mother up!
Today I didn't get much done...a lot of washing...the house is still a disaster.  We went to Rendezvous Pointe...wormed horses...and hualed 3 down to Jerry's.  Bob has plans to work with the geldings...hope it happens. 
Went to the lake while checking water.  It's still going over the overflow.  Stopped at Hagenstein's to return their chain saw.  Bob used it while ours was broken down.

Day 13 Three different herds into Mud Lake

Palmer and Michael

The first bunch Coke's lead end at Mud Lake.

The 2nd bunch almost at Mud Lake...Coke Lander's bunch.

Holding herd with the last bunch; Albert's.  It was after noon when we left for the ride down to the trailers..which was another hour and a half.

Drive into Mud Lake Day 12

The gather heading for the red gate. Twenty one degrees up there this morning.  Ahh, but lunch at The Place.

We saw eighteen head of cow elk..we think all with calves heading over the ridge just behind our drive in the Mud Lake pasture.  Jill and Gary..eat your hearts out!

Mothering up at Mud Lake.  We'll be headed there tomorrow too.  I had actually planned for yesterday to be my last day..but I am pretty sure tomorrow will be.  Decided Day 13 had an omnious sound....but will do it.  My mares are worn out. Bob's Chaco horse threw a front shoe today, so he'll be doing some horse shoeing if he rides the next day to push Albert's bunch clear into the lake.  At this point he plans to do it.

Day 11 on the Drift...Day 3 into the Pastures

As we were about to ride back down to the trailers, I shot this one of Bob, Garlie, Tif and Rhonda on the ridge above the gate that goes into the cabin pasture.
At the Bentonite Pile, as we were loading up, Betty and Brent, Donna and Mart, and Cyd and Pat came by enroute to Fish Lake on the Dubois side.  Was fun to see them!