Despite social distancing we know how to have fun!
Every week here is special, sometimes they're full of memories from past guests and other times the week is filled with brand new faces eager to hit the trail or learn to dance.
June of 2020 is off to a great start at the Black Mtn Dude Ranch
This week featured nearly all returners, which is fantastic for story time and catching up. The weather was beautiful and the margaritas were cold at pack camp, a week with no complaints from anyone involved. Every year BMR works with Vail Veterans to host veterans and their families, last year we had four vet families and this week we had one family stay with us.
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What a strange spring we’ve had! Yet, somehow, we’re back here at Black Mountain Ranch and enjoying our guests and horses. We just finished week one, which should have been week three! It was a small group, which is great for us to get used to all the new protocols we’ve been implementing in our Covid world.
July 28th- August 11th How crazy is it that we’re beginning week 12 right now? I was just writing about SNOW on the second day of summer and now Avery and Zach are heading to school and Thatcher is packing up for college… Good lord. Quick update for those reading on Blondie’s healing process and other horse craziness! Blondie is healing up nicely but last week Cyndy noticed she was off in her front and still quite swollen in the back, having had her stiches out she feared it might ...
The week of the 14thto 21stbrought us people from Germany, Scotland and of course multiple states across America aging from as young as 7! For those wondering, our cut off age for riding is 6yrs old but we do accept guests younger if they have a parent or an adult to watch them. This week brought us some fun and respectful kids, which is always a gamble as we’re getting to know people out here. I got the honor of teaching Waylon, JT, Charlie and James, who were all young gentleman under the ...
For those of you who do read this, thank you! And I apologize that I haven’t been doing it weekly, but when people tell me they read these I always get excited and am so honored you take the time to follow my long winded stories of the ranch! The last two weeks have been crazy but so much fun! We had two family reunions the week before last and let me tell you, it is adorable to have younger girls showing off their flips and splits, one of the little ones could even backbend and then run ...
July 1st2019 The sun was actually out the whole week!! Thank goodness. The week before last our guests had an adventure week because they dealt with wind, rain, sun, snow, hail… We barely got the cattle in before the snow came Saturday night! Wild week. We had sponsored four veteran families and man; the stories and the camaraderie were amazing. Kyle was particularly touched by the Pitman family he wrangled for, having his brothers in the military make everything troop related a little ...
June 15th2019 The whole week the weather was pretty much perfect! Brief rain shower once with some thunder but other than that we’ve been looking at blue skies and fluffy white clouds with highs in the low 70s and lows in the low 50s, perfect. This week’s guest brought us four people from England and two from Wales and let me tell you, some of the English rules on the pool table lead to chaos! It’s hilarious to pretend to argue about who’s rules are better between America and England ...