Bitterroot Ranch Special Wishes and Specials
One advantage of wintering in Wyoming is cuddling up to a cozy wood stove, peering through the crystals on the windows and seeing the mountain peaks blanketed with snow looming above a bank of low-lying clouds. The mule deer are back, very tame as usual and it is fun to watch them foraging and bedding down out of the wind in the valley below our house.
The downside is waking up after a night of -35 F to no water because the pump control box has frozen open, the vehicles dont start and the horses are out of their field because the elk have knocked down the fences. Life is never dull.
Richard and Mel are off to Kenya and Tanzania on Christmas Day, for some great horseback riding. Bayard hopes to join them for a few days in London in January. He is enjoying the pheasant and duck hunting with the dogs on the lower ranch where most of the horses and cows spend the winter. Richard is ensconced in his new house there (it is the old Crowheart school teachers home) which we finally moved in October.
We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and hope to see you again next summer for some great horseback riding at the ranch. There is a $150 discount if you make your ranch reservations before the end of the year.
Bayard, Mel and Richard Fox