I will just start out by saying that I have not had much dealings with horses. In 2004 I went on a 3 week Grizzley Bear hunt in Alaska and had to ride a horse. That was my first time ever riding a horse and the first day they had me on that thing for 14 hours. Not only was it my first day ever on a horse, but they also had me swim that thing across a swift flowing river and we were high in the mountains on a very narrow trail that if I would have fallen off my horse I would have only fell a couple of thousand feet!!!!! Once again that was all the first day of my horse career!!!

After a few days the soreness wore off and my horse, Cookie, took very good care of me. She was 18 years old and was slow and steady, but I didn’t want anything different. She took good care of me and I’m glad of that. We had no major problems on that trip.

Now my last trip was my second time dealing with horses. On the Yukon trip I rode a total of 4 different horses!

Moberly – The first horse I rode. He was slow and steady, but late in the day when we headed back to camp, he was trotting all the way home!

Barney – This was my favorite Horse. I rode him 5 days and he was a good steady horse. He did everything I asked of him and gave me absolutely no problems!!!! I even shared some of my apples with him!

Lefty – I only rode Lefty one day, but he was a good horse! I could not believe he was only broken to ride back in June. He was very cooperative and gave me no problems! I even took him to the top of a mountain the only day I rode him!

Creamo – I rode Creamo 3 days. He was slow, but steady. Great horse, but we did have one incident. We were riding along the last day we went out hunting and there was snow everywhere. We rode by a fir tree that had atleast 12 inches of snow on the limbs. As we were passing the tree, all the snow fell off! I guess Creamo thought a Bear was coming after us because he started bucking! This being my first rodeo, my form wasn’t that great and I got disqualified because I slapped him with my free hand, but atleast I didn’t get bucked off!!!!! Other than that incident we got along great.

Even if I’ve only had 6 weeks on a horse, Do you think I can get cowboy status now????