March 2007 - Posts

• A Piece of heaven in the Connemara of Ireland

  Explore Ireland's Connemara on Horseback Connemara . A timeless wilderness of lakes and mountains. What better way could there be to explore this magical land than on the back of a Connemara pony, behind the famous Irish horseman, Willie Leahy on the Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:18 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, Ireland, Connemara, pack trips

• Tales from the Pack string in the Yukon Wilderness, Canada

  It is the first day of a six day pack trip and we are heading off into the mountains. I’m always excited to go. Leah and I have the guests on their riding horses, the packhorses loaded up, packs covered with a canvass tarp and tied down with a diamond Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:23 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: Canada, horseback pack trips, wilderness, Yukon

• Equestrian Getaway in Mexico

  Rancho Mexicana combines Swiss attention to detail with Mexican exuberance and color to offer its international guests impressions of the real Mexico and the spectacular Mexican highlands as experienced from horseback. By Rod Lopez-Fabrega and Mary Ashcraft Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:24 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, Mexico, Las Cascadas, equestrian

• Vacation in the “Wild” West - Arizona

  Dragoon Mountains GRapevine Canyon Ranch Getaway How many people wish to escape routine, stress and obligations? The seaside is where most people will escape to. But, once arrived there, they share the beaches, cell phone chats, family dramas, and after Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:42 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, Arizona, Dragoon Mountains, Grapevine Canyon

• Tetons Wagon Train Wyoming

  In the heart of cowboy country sits the Wild West town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Generation after generation, folks from around the world have visited the town of Jackson and the National Parks that surround it. The sky scraping Tetons and the reliable Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:55 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, Jackson Hole, wagon train, Tetons, covered wagons

• Riding high in New Zealand - South Island

  Horse & Hound's intrepid news editor find out what it's like to rides deep into the high country of New Zealand’s South Island If I close my eyes now, I'm back on a striking grey horse, the sun beating down, clip-clopping along a dirt road — on one Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:41 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, New Zealand, Christchurch

• Gila Working Ranch Makes Cowboyin' Women's Work - New Mexico

  Aspiring Cowgirls with a taste for adventure will find what they are looking for at the Gila Working Ranch in NEw Mexico, a 30,000 acre working cattle ranch on 30,000 private acres in some of the most beautiful country in the West. Cowgirl Camp is an Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:14 PM by admin | 1 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, riding clinic, cowgirl, western

• Saddle Up in the Cariboo, British Columbia

  Deep in BC’s Cariboo Country, the Cariboo deluxe Wilderness Ranch offers aspiring cowboys and cowgirls the ultimate western vacation. Featuring one of the most unique riding programs in North America, guests at this exclusive hideaway are assigned their Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:34 PM by admin | 0 Comments Keywords/tags: horseback, British Columbia, Cariboo, guest ranch