Gaia leads Juniper and Mysterium up a trail.
It looks pretty parched out there, but signs of spring are *everywhere*.
All in one
13 03 2026Comments : 2 Comments »
Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon, Utah
Nobody races pronghorns
12 03 2026
Winona declines to race the pronghorns. 🙂
Wise choice, lady, because you are low-energy, and they are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast!
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Categories : Pronghorn, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Grey beauties
11 03 2026
Grey girls Piedra and Maia are still shaggy at the end of what passed for “winter” this year.
The spring winds are blowing, and the ponies are starting to shed under sunny skies and 70-degree days. (Argh.)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Bearded lady
10 03 2026
Sweet Mysterium rocks her winter beard. 🙂
The temp hit 71F yesterday. March 9. In Colorado.
“Winter” this year was just a word. The ponies are shedding.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glow
9 03 2026
Rowan wasn’t super happy about Aiyanna jumping her place in line and trotting past leader-Ro, but they sure were pretty in that scrumptious light!
(The snow, of course, is melted. Grateful for the moisture … looking forward to anything to come with hopeful anticipation!)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Snow elk
8 03 2026
These elk greeted me on the way out of Spring Creek Basin. If they look “hazy” or dim, that’s because of the blowing snow.
Mostly cows and last year’s calves, but one young bull was with them.
Mama and youngster check in with each other before they follow the group over the hill.
Here, I think they were watching some mustangs I couldn’t see because of a hill to my right.
Note that this was a snow wave after the earlier/overnight big snow (the 2 inches or so) had already mostly melted. What you see is starting to semi-stick again.
That wave didn’t last long … and neither did the semi-stuck snow. 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Elk, Snow
Bull’s eye
7 03 2026
It wasn’t until I got out there with Sancho and the bands that I realized how LUCKY Spring Creek Basin got with the snow. Lower Disappointment Valley (especially center and right background, which is sort of westish) either didn’t get snow or didn’t get snow that stuck … or maybe it was rain? (Spring Creek Basin is within Disappointment Valley.)
The sunshine came out while I was with the mustangs, but …
… in that far distance (western/southwestern Disappointment Valley, and the Dolores River canyon(s) is out there), another wave of snow was drifting across the landscape.
By the time I got back to my buggy after a two-mile round-trip hike, the eastern part of the basin was under beautiful sunshine, but the sky to the north/northwest/west/southwest was DARK. I didn’t go far heading out before I was back into the wind-driven snowstorm.
It was WET snow, and it was melting fast. By the end of the day (before then for a lot of areas), most of that snow had soaked right into the very desperate soil, which is a huge relief and blessing.
YaYaYaYaYAYAYAYAY! 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Super serene saunter
6 03 2026
With any hope at all, by the time you take a gander at this post this morning, our world will be white … according to the forecast Thursday afternoon! I’m not sure I believe it … but I’m hoping with all my might!
Update forthcoming (hopefully a good update) … !
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Categories : Filly Peak, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Fly by bay
5 03 2026
Tenaz and the band flew past me as I sat on my buggy on the road. All I could do was focus and shoot – and I did!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Summer March
4 03 2026
Looks like a summer pic, right? This was the evening before the eclipse. That’s Rowan.
Also crazy? While the sunshine flowed over the landscape from the clear southwestern, western and northwestern sky, total cloud cover everywhere else prevent us from seeing the moonRISE that night!
Forecasters are trying to cheer us (Coloradans) up with an optimistic snow forecast by/before March 16. Meanwhile, mostly, partly lotsa sunshine. At least it’s not all 60-degree temps. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 