I am about to head for Alaska again next week. Decided I had better finish my posts about the last trip – it’s been almost a year! So here’s part three from last year’s Alaska Moose Hunt Trip. The other two posts […]

Well…a mountain.

Today, Jeff Palmer and I made a ride I have been wanting to do for several years. You might recall my post from a couple years ago, in which I talked about a trail up a mountain near my home […]

It has been awhile since I posted anything. I’m sorry about that, but I just sort of got burned out on social media earlier this year and had a few other things come up as well, as I documented in my last […]

I have to apologize to my followers. I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t taken the time to compose posts about my latest pack trips. In fact, I still haven’t finished the last post about my Alaska trip last […]

I’ve learned once again never to say “never.”

I have sold the best trail horse I ever owned, one I thought I would never sell. Lizzy will be going to a new home tomorrow. It will be a good home with an owner […]

This is the fourth in a series of posts about gear for horse packing. Again, a reminder that my kind of horse packing is not normally packing in to a base camp, but is packing from point to point, from a specific […]

Well, gifted to a very good friend. Jimbo will have  a very good home for a very long time. It was the least I could do for him. He took very good care of my dad for a lot of miles. He’ll now take good care of my […]

This is the third in a series of posts about my learning and experience in horse packing.

In this post we will cover general camp gear that I take on my horse pack trips. I have talked, in the previous posts, […]

On a recent trail ride, my horse stumbled and fell over going up a steep incline and I came out of the saddle right at the crest and ended up sitting on a pile of low growing cactus.

While there was enough […]

Let’s talk about primary gear for pack animals.

Now, as a reminder, this is the gospel according to the “First Book of Tony.” This is from my own experience and it pertains to long-distance horse/mule packing, […]

Another leg of my Mexico-to-Canada horse pack trip is coming up in May. A couple friends and I will be horse packing from Flagstaff, near where Dad and I stopped in 2016, to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. […]

March 2, 2019

I got up early…but not too early, had breakfast, hitched up my trailer, and headed out to see the horses. I enlisted the help of my son-in-law to help me catch-up Oreo, who was to be taken to […]

I am going forward with my plans to make another short segment of my Mexico-to-Canada horse pack trip. In May this year, I will make the passage from Flagstaff, Arizona to the Grand Canyon National Park. I will […]

Today was one of those days that just keeps getting better…then it’s over.

I got up bright and early, had my breakfast, then, right on time, my buddy arrived. Our plan for the day was to deliver a horse to a […]

Chance is a 12 year-old registered Tennessee Walking Horse gelding, registered name, Gen’s Little Wonder. He stands about 15 hands and has a very nice build. His papers show nice breeding. He has an exceptionally […]

OREO IS SOLD.

Oreo is a coming 15 year old registered Tennessee Walking Horse mare. Her registered name is Kansas Windmill and she has some good names in her pedigree. She has very good conformation and a nice […]

Sold.

Introducing Dusty.

She is a blue-papered registered Missouri Fox Trotter mare, coming five years-old, registered name: Dunny’s Strawberry Delight. She was sired by the excellent stallion Dun Got It All […]

This evening I was thinking about my next horse pack trip and what needs to be done before the departure date arrives. That got me thinking about the reason I started Western Trail Rider. Maybe it’s worth a short […]

This is the second installment of my four-part blog post about my trip in September 2018 to Alaska for a moose hunt with my friend, Derek Habel.

Part 1 ended with Derek and I arriving at our trailhead […]