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This Week’s Story: Black Ice in Deep Canyons

“Are you OK?” I tried to gain eye contact of the obviously more than a little dazed driver. His jeans were freshly shredded, coat impregnated with the reddish ocher of Salmon River cliff-rock, and had a few fresh and bloody scrapes and bruises on his ruddy complexion. He was aimlessly walking around, staring at his twisted wreck of a Peterbilt semi-truck, jackknifed flatbed trailer, torn asunder from truck, now inches from the brink of a cliff that fell precipitously down to the turbulent icy steel gray waters of a partly frozen river…..

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Ranch News

Some range flashbacks from years past!

May 2019. Lupine is one of the most striking wildflowers we see in the hills, and it was everywhere after a wet spring. Photo by Glenn.

July 2019. Sunny, with Melanie aboard, gets a well-deserved afternoon drink after a morning on the hill above Beaver Camp. This camp is one of the more challenging in terms of topography; it is surrounded by steep hillsides and it takes some planning to graze the cattle up to grass. Photo by Glenn.

July 2019. The herd settles down for the night after a good day of grazing on the hillsides above Beaver Camp. It may look like they’re drinking out of the creek, but their night pen is actually positioned well above the stream and the herd is watered via a pump, hose, and stock tanks in the night pen. This configuration is seen in most night pens. We can water our cattle without them destroying sensitive riparian habitat and impacting fish and beaver populations. Photo by Glenn.

July 2019. Sam retrieves the front bumper that was attached to the Chevy truck behind him. The road to Moose Creek is one of the roughest on the allotment, and the long-suffering blue Chevrolet was not the first to succumb. Photo by Glenn.

July 2019. Melanie and Annie take a break in Little Hat after a challenging stint on the range. Along this overgrown road are many currant bushes, and the fruit they produce tastes akin to tangerines. Mini bursts of flavor, refreshing after long hot days. Photo by Glenn.

September 2019. The crew of Maddy, Annie, and Becky (from left to right) headed up to cow camp. This was a particularly eventful trip. We stopped here to let the truck cool off after it began to overheat on the climb, and we had also repaired a flat tire on the old bumper pull trailer several minutes prior. Photo by Glenn.

June 2020. Melanie, her gelding, Gatto, and her dog, Buster, watch the cattle near the end of a day of grazing. This was Buster’s first year on the range, and he was still figuring things out. Photo by Glenn.

November 2020. On one of his late fall range recon missions, Glenn discovered this massive paw print left by a wolf traveling across a vast territory. By then, all the cattle had returned home, so we had nothing to worry about. Photo by Glenn.

June 2022. Water management can be a challenge on the range. These tanks, fed by a long, temperamental pipeline from Larkspur Spring, can be particularly difficult. If the pipeline malfunctions, repairs must happen quickly. Glenn was pretty happy to have those tanks full and ready for cattle! Photo by Caryl.

July 2022. Clyde watches over the herd as they graze one of the “sky islands”, a series of high elevation meadows separated by stands of dark timber. Grazing them is not for the faint of heart, and it takes a good crew and good dogs to keep the herd together on their way to the meadows. Photo by Glenn.

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