Well, I finally got around to documenting my Alaska trip for the blog. A friend of mine got on me for delaying so long.  When I started writing it up, it got so long I decided to break it up into three parts: The […]

Recently, I was perusing comments on the Youtube video of a particular horse trainer, whose methods I like and learn from.  In this video, he happened to mention that the horse he was riding was a 2 year-old […]

Well, by about the end of this week, I’ll be on the road headed for Alaska!

A couple weeks ago, a friend, Derek Habel, invited me to accompany him on his annual moose hunt. He hauls his horses up there every […]

During July, this year (2018), a friend invited me to head into the Wind River mountains for a fishing horse pack trip. As things turned out, however, the fellow who was to guide us to his favorite fishing […]

Last Tuesday, I took a couple good friends for a nice horse ride out near Soldier Summit, east of Utah Valley off of Route 6. It was an area in which I have wanted to ride for a while now, so I took the […]

Several months ago, I mentioned to a buddy that I needed to clean my saddle pads. He off-handedly replied that he just takes his to the car wash.

Well, I thought I’d give that a try.

When Dad and I […]

I have been pretty busy lately.

At the end of May, my horse pasture landlord called and said he had sold the land and I needed to find a new place for my horses. We were lucky enough to find a suitable location […]

From the first day I moved to Salem, Utah, the trail up to Santaquin Peak has been calling my name.  I can see it from my house.

This trail is actually an ATV service trail for a radio transmission tower […]

This evening I was writing in my journal and put to paper some thoughts about my love of trail riding and working with my horses. Thought I’d share them.

I used to tell myself that when I rode my horses I could […]

I recently saw a photograph on facebook that showed a horse with a damaged tongue. The associated post indicated the photo was taken by a vet, who said the tongue damage was from abuse from a snaffle bit. The vet […]

Hey folks!

My daughter, Amy Henrie Gillett, is one of the authors recently published in Volume 34 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Anthology, currently available on Amazon and all other […]

I finished the repairs on another old saddle last week. Thought I’d make a short post about it.

This is an old saddle I bought just prior to my big horse pack trip in 2015. I was looking for a good saddle for […]

Those of you who have followed me for a while will remember that way back in about October 2012, during a training session, my mare, Penny, blew a gasket and let off a bunch of steam. In doing so, she went down […]

I just finished reading Black Range Tales, by James A. McKenna, which I enjoyed very much, about the old mining days of the southwestern United States, particularly southeastern Arizona and southern New Mexico, […]

Seems I have been so busy with life that I seem to be forgetting to live.

Hehehe. That sounds really good and rolls off the tongue nicely, but it really isn’t the truth. The truth is that I have, in fact, been […]

This afternoon I was re-watching a few segments of video I took while my dad and I were trekking across the arid lands of southeastern Arizona, as we embarked on our Mexico-to-Canada horse pack trip in 2015. It […]

A couple weeks ago I got an unexpected text from a friend. It said something like, “Heading up to the Bob Marshall. Want to go?”

I responded, “When?”

He said, “Next week!”

I started cancelling things and […]

During the weekend of May 25-27, 2017, Jon Tanner and I headed to Capitol Reef National Monument, southern Utah, to ride with the Utah Missouri Fox Trotter Association (UMFTA) and a few other friends. It’s a ride […]

I’ve had my new horse, J, out a couple times over the past week, for both pleasure and training.

Last week, my wife and I took Lizzy and J out to Santaquin, Utah for a short ride. Due to inclement weather, the […]

This spring I have been working on some upgrades for my horse hauling pickup. I recently added two accessories that I’ve been wanting for a while: An exhaust brake and a combination tool box and auxiliary fuel […]