Hope your summer is going well!
We have been having a blast up here at Black Mountain Colorado Dude Ranch. The long Winter and Spring lead to an almost perfect summer. Our long summer days are now ideal horse riding weather. The temperature is in the mid 70's and nights cooling down to the 40's. Our guests are commenting on the refreshing and a wonderful change it is from the hot weather they are coming from.
Max and Dice here are enjoying it as well.
If you are itching for ...
One of the most memorable things about the ranch is the horses. You are matched with a horse that meets your skill level (and adventure level) and spend the week developing the relationship. Every night we send them from the corral to the fields for dinner and room to move. You will be hard pressed to find a staff member that misses it. It is an amazingly beautiful thing seeing 70 stampeding horses run by you. Although there is plenty of food for them in the field, the group dynamics of the ...
Many BMR guests are curious about the history of the local Indians, so today's "Fun Facts & History" gives a brief look at the Ute Indians that inhabited our area.
Most of this information comes from "Early McCoy" and a few other out-of-print books. The word Ute means "high land" or "land of the sun" and the Ute nation at one time encompassed around two-thirds of Colorado. In 1876, when Colorado became the 38th state, most of the Western Slope was still unexplored territory occupied ...
We love when our guests capture their guest ranch experience! There is nothing like an outstanding photo to remind you of your excellent vacation experience.
We started a flickr photo group for Black Mountain Ranch here. Have photos to add? We would love to see them.
Check out some of our favorites:
From Jen:
From Aimee:
From Michael:
We are halfway through the summer season (can you believe that) and are just loving this year! We just launched this new website and are having a real good time posting a bunch of photos to our facebook page (with over 10,000 fans!). We need to post more here, and this is our first of a ton of planned posts.
Cattle drives are an amazingly fun time. We do them every week. A few weeks ago Wrangler Josh helped out a calf that kept on falling behind and Michael happened to have his camera ...