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Tracey Elliot-Reep's AdventureClick here to read Tracey Elliot-Reep's full story Hi Colin The saddle and accessories are great ! Just got one shot of the saddle from a distance while I'm on the grey so far but I'll get a lot more in the months ahead! I rode in it for the first time on Friday - it was very comfortable. I also had a little mishap as my pack horse, Pistol was frightened and jerked the lead rein out of my hand - then he decided to go back the way we had come .. on his own! As he went the pack started unloading ....when I discribed what my pack looked like strewn along the road a new friend said "that's what we call a garage sale here in Texas!" What I discovered after that incident was that I could tie the pack horse onto the D attachment right at the back of the cantle and he wasn't going to get away again, unless he took the saddle, me and smokey with him! I will get an update sorted and forward it onto you soon - please let me know that the photos come out ok. Saddling up now and heading for fort Davis. THANKS Tracey Elliot-Reep Attached are some shots taken in the Big Bend National Park
Hi Colin I've been zig-zagging through New Mexico having some great experiences on your Bronco Poley Saddle. Like mustering cattle for branding. Just a couple of days ago I met Larry Reeder, (one of the top cutting horse trainers) as I was riding along a road near Fort Sumner and he invited me back to watch some cutting training. I also had a go cutting using the Bronco Poley and even turning at speed it kept me in the saddle and was so comfortable. The trainer said he had to have a go in it and was very complimentary. Actually, it has caught a lot of attention out here in the West and it has been sat in by many!
The saddle bags are great - they contain my office and handbag contents - I just have to dig deep! And the water bottle attached to the saddle ideal for this dry climate as I can just grab it so easily. I hope you received my other updates - I can't send them from my computer at the moment but when there's opportunity I give my jump drive and ask people to send them through their computers.So I hope it works - in Santa Fe I will get sorted. I'm just getting an update on my website and putting in a link to your Aussie saddles. Thanks for the comfort ! Photos attached are: Drying out in New Mexico, climbing a windmill, crossing the Guadalupe Mountains, trying on a collie dog! But the National parks wouldn't allow me to take a dog in the parks.
Update 6/24 Hi Colin We rode into Lake City in Colorado last week end and the people are so hospitable here we have decided to stay .... for a few days anyway! We'll then continue following the Continental Divide north to Estes Park. We have visited Mesa Verde in South West Colorado and Monument Valley which was spectacular and a contrast to the abundant water and mountains here in Colorado! The saddle is still comfortable! And great that it fits both horses so I can swop horses, packing and riding. Here are some pictures
Monument Valley
Snow on Cinamon Pass - midsummer in Colorado at 12,000 feet!
Riding through the historic Creede Silver Mines.
Stony Pass on the Continental Divide. Next stop is Estes park and visiting a rodeo at Steamboat Springs in northern Colorado. Hope this is what you want - please let me know if you want something different. I haven't forgotton the photo of me and saddle - just need to bump into someone of the Continental Divide to take it for me with the snowy mountains in background! THANKS for the comfort! Tracey Elliot-Reep Update 6/27 Hi Colin Thanks for your response - I appreciate being cheered on! I'll leaving Lake City in a day - I've got a ridng adventure powerpoint presentation tonight at this beautiful lake San Cristobal. I've been on the move for over two months now, although I've stopped here and there to do some photo/ feature stories on route. Been gathering information about the silver and gold mining in this area of Colorado. Boy, times were tough in those days ... it's cool enough in the night here in the summer at this altitude - can you imagine working underground in the winter - no thank you! I will be on and off the Colorado/ Continental Trail for the next four hundred miles to the Wyoming Border. I'm just a little apprehensive (I have to admit!) as it could be too tough to take horses along some stretches, with steep inclines and loose scree (rocks and boulders). If it is we'll just have to climb down and find an alternative route. We'll have to drop down anyway at night for grass for the horses and to get a little warmer and some more air as it is thin up here. My horses from East Texas are having a new experience ! I was told when the horses took off the other night with their hobbles and tethering rope at a gallop that they probably saw a bear as there are quite a few around this area. I have been told to camp right near the horses as they are a good warning system! I really don't know how many miles I have done or have to do but I reckon we're nearly half way and the route is approximately 3,000 miles. the terrain could be quite difficult through Colorado and the air thin at the high altitude, but thank God we should have enough water, unlike down south, although I take the precaution of pumping all mine through a purifier which takes ages. Out here in the West the air is so dry one is always thirsty. I want to get north before the bad thunder and lightening storms hit. Lightening is a real danger in the high mountains of Colorado if I see a storm coming I've been told "to bale off the tops -fast." Also it can snow at anytime of the year and the more north I travel into September I will get snow so we had better keep going!! Hey, Colin I hope this gives a little more info. I'll send some more photos when I get to the north of Colorado after Ester's park and Steamboat Springs rodeo. Many thanks TraceyHi Colin HI Colin It helps- to be a little crazy!! Now in Wyoming - Here are a few photos in Colorado I meant to send a few weeks ago!    In a few days I will send on some from Wyo, including a close up saddle one, at last! Thanks Tracey Hi Colin Reached the border of Canada ! It hasn't really sunk in yet! We attempted to cross over the Continental Divide, yet
once again on our long journy following the Rocky Mountains. This time over Two
Medicine Pass in Glacier National Park, but we had to turn back as the snow was
getting too deep to see the track across the pass. (No 463 (Portrait in
snow) No 453 Saddling up my Bronco Poley Saddle. This has been
definitely one of my luxuries on this ride several thousand miles from Mexico to
Canada! Oh boy! do I love my saddle! No 149 We were invited to the Blackfeet Reservation and
guests on the Fox Creek Ranch, where they were doing the fall round up of
cattle. I joined them riding Smokey . He loved a bit of a gallop as I was trying
to get into position to take some photos. Needless to say some of them turned
out a bit blurred! !It was great to have some of the Blackfeet tribe ride with me for the finale at the Canada Border! Colin I hope you got the previous update sent last week from Montana? I had an invitation to see a bit of Canada, so as I had got that far on horse back I left Smoke and Pistol with friends in Montana and took off for Alaska! Now in the Yukon - Alaska tomorrow for a day or two and then heading back south ... it's Very cold up here! But found some grizzies and more to photograph so definitey worth the trip! I will call you when I'm back in the U.S. Thanks Tracey |
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