Back in British Columbia, Canada

We made in back to BC the beginning of May. Came back to Langley for a few days then headed up to visit family, our other horses and then head to our favourite place to camp in BC Lundbom Lake.

Leaving the lower mainland 

Going up over the Coquihalla mountain range

Made it to Lake country just outside Kelowna

In Kelowna

Beautiful lake views from everywhere

Crossing new floating bridge into the city of Kelowna

A great visit with family (Sam, Dean and Jordan)  and myself and Duma my Serval cat. 

The view from Sam's home 

Now heading to visit with Ron's dad in Cherryville following the lakes all the way

There is a reason they call this lake country. I would love this place right on the lake horses in the fields LOL 

At Ron's dad place the horses had a field to get out in.

This is Turning point ranch in Pritchard BC where are mares are boarded.
You can't miss our horses they are the coloured ones

One the way up to Lundbom from Merritt. To get to Lundbom Grasslands you take the Kelowna connector and drive up just over 8.9km you will see the turn off on the left. Don't take the higher grave road go to the left on the lower road and drive in 3km you will pass 2 lakes before coming to Lundbom Lake.

The clouds were just leaving as we pulled in 

In the morning the last of the clouds left  Lundbom Lake 

Our campsite at Lundbom with beautiful blue skys

This lake is just so blue and tropical looking great fishing too

Here are some of the corrals 

First ride out beautiful day almost like an August day hard to believe there was snow here a few days ago

Love these grasslands

Going past Hamilton lake 

Another picture of Ron and Cimaron at Hamilton lake

We found a new lake to ride around 

Ron checking out the lake for fish 

Heading back from our first ride

Hard to get sick of this view of Lundbom Lake 

View from Campsite of the lake 

The fishing was good this week as it was the first week without ice on the lake

Next ride out over looking Hamilton lake 

Did a view ride over looking Hwy heading to Kamloops you can see the alfalfa fields starting to grow below

Riding around the back of Sugarloaf mountain

Great views over looking the city of Merritt

Looking down on the lakes below Lundbom in the background and Hamilton below

Just rolling grasslands as far as the eye can see

Back at camp Duma finds some old and new friends 

Kenya our Savannah cat patrols the campsite. 

Our dogs Sidney the 13 year old Aussie and Sammy our 10 year old Jack Russell having fun in camp

Leaving Las Vegas - slowly heading home.

Leaving Bonnie Springs Ranch 

We stopped at a cute little town along Hwy 95 

We overnighted at the Tonopah Nevada fairgrounds 

Picture of our rig at the Tonopah Nevada fairgrounds  

The next day our plan was to go and see Virginia City 

It is a bit of a drive up

Virginia City  the town is at 6200 feet

 

Very cool old buildings

The school

Lots of cute shops and restaurants 

Museum 

They have not done a lot to the board walks on the main street. You have to watch for pot-holes. LOL I fell in one. 

Leaving Virginia City 

It is a long twisty road into Reno NV 

After leaving Nevada we crossed into California found a great spot to camp for the night on Eagle Lake

We set up our shock fence on the hill side of the road on a pull through. Camping is allowed in this area. We were going to ride the lake shore in the morning but it was really cool so we headed to Oregon.  

Map of the lake we camped around the "Point Senior" area

Bend Rodeo grounds

 We got to Bend Oregon and looked for the fairground. Found out that Sisters has a rodeo once a year and that there was fairground up Hwy 20. When we got there we saw huge gaits found they were not locked so headed in. Someone was there and let us stay but normally the gaits are locked and there is normally no one on site. So we were lucky. There was no snow when we arrived and we hoped to ride some of the trails system behind the grounds. We were told that the town of Sisters along with some of the horsemen had put over 85 miles of trails in the area and 2 horse camps. There is a great web site that I have links to from the Oregon Page on my web site Called Oregon horse campsites and trails they also have a facebook page to please visit both to find some good riding In Oregon!! 

We ended up not riding because we woke up to all this snow in the morning after the caretaker had told us they never get snow this time of year LOL  

We decided to head out of the High desert of Oregon and head towards Portland and North Plains were a friend of ours had a 130 acre ranch and room for our rig and horses. 

The roads were clear but there had been snow that night

This is a view of my friend Bonnie's ranch from above. 

All the dogs came to greet our dogs. :) 

Just beautiful views from Echo Glen Equestrian Centre

There are about 8 to 10 miles of trails going in-out and around Echo Glen Equestrian Centre 

This is the stallion at Echo Glen Equestrian Centre his name is Corteo  he is by my late stallion Coeur de Lion who rests in peace under a big tree on this fabulous property. 

Another view from above

Coeur de Lion's resting place under this big tree. 

The lower fields are full of happy playful horses

You will find at least 3 Pyrenees dogs on the property. This 3 year old  female was a rescue as her  owner had died and she guarded his body for 14 hours before anyone found him. She is very sweet but a little lost. She is well loved and will come around with time.


We left Portland this morning April 19th and are heading towards the Canadian boarder home.