Looks like we are back in the saddle again

Truman

That is a very nice one Truman! :) Good to see you here.

Thanks Ulrik, glad to be here. ✌️

Great image. Should be the opening scene to a movie.

We're not riding off into the sunset but towards new horizons 🌤

André

Lovely shot, thanks

Looks like a scene from "Bonanza". Wonderful capture. Thanks for sharing.

Dan

Thanks guys. That was last summer on out last day at the ranch in the North end of Jackson Hole. I was out with a guide named Clint, the young fellow in the picture. His real job is an engineering student at UNC and this was his summer job. We were climbing up onto a plateau. It was a fairly long climb. Almost to the top and there comes a racket on the right side of the trail in a grove of small aspen. Clint's horse spun and mine stopped. It seems that a bull elk was in the aspen - probably sleeping and we disturbed him. He had a big rack and his rack was getting tangled in the trees as he tired to "get out of Dodge." We stopped and faced him as he figured out how to exit. He turned and went out the uphill side and trotted off. A truly amazing animal. When we got to the top we stopped, got off had a cool drink. Clint had to adjust his saddle a bit from his horse's spin. He did a good job staying on - young legs and the quick reaction of youth. We mounted up to head back and as we breast another small ridge, this shot opened up. I thought it captured the day.

This was one of the two close large wildlife encounters I've had on horse back. The first was in Colorado near the West Elk Wilderness outside of Gunninson. I was riding my beloved mare and we came trotting around a bend in the trail where it opens up about 200 meters ahead of my riding companions. My horse's ears shoot forward, head goes up as she comes to a stop. She stood there but I knew she had detected something. On the left ahead of us a big black bear rumbles out of the brush. Behind her was the first cub followed by the second. They are about 100 feet in front of us. She gives us a glance and keeps on walking. The cubs were running and darting as mamma tried to herd time on. They move on off disappearing into the brush on the other side headed down the ridge.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Looks like you are back in the saddle. I remember that image from the soon-to-be-shelved Photo forum site. If you look closely at the forum categories on this site for Fuji you may see a new subforum you may recognize.

Bob

Beautiful. What a classic image

Very cool image, Truman. After years of reading your posts, that would be pretty well exactly what I might expect to see if I were bringing up the rear trying to keep up with you on horseback. It's also possible that I would have had to take a quick shot from the ground after falling off said horse with my hopefully still operational camera. :-)

Jerry

Great photo. Now if I just had that type of a day as I look out the window to realize that I have drive across Wyoming in a spring snow storm

Richardh

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. No fun - be safe.

It’s only from Sheridan to Laramie and it is interstate most of the way and I will not be on i80. Imuses to do this every day but that was 10 years ago. The things I do to deliver a dollhouse to my granddaughter. All I can do is go,slow and hope that wydot is out.

Back in Feb 1983 four of us took off from Denver early as a storm was headed West and we were going to meet friends from back East in Jackson for some skiing. Not early enough it seems as that's when I discovered that DOT really does close those gates on I80 as we got to Rawlings and I80 West was closed. An old timer we ran into in the McDonalds at that interchange - gave us directions and we learned the back way into Jackson through Lander and Dubois. As trucks were slipping and sliding all over I80 - we didn't see much snow at all until we got to Togwotee Pass and it wasn't bad. The East side of the Wind River range seemed like the banana belt that night.

Bob--
To your question: PDX is the three letter abbreviation for the airport in the city where I live -- Portland, Oregon.

J.

A bit of mystery though PDX what it stands for ?

Bob (too many Bob(s) here !) AKA baobob

@JerryPDX, what was ("is", for a few days more) the Astro in you DPReview tag? A link to astrophotography maybe?

Ulrik

We only had about 40 miles of white out conditions , snowing and going thru snow drips . After that it was out of 4wd and going at a resonable pace. The last intersection before got home had the gates down on hwy 30 due to wrecks and i80 was closed again due to winter conditions. There was 12” of snow at my daughters house so we are finally getting our snow pack which is good.

Yup. Astrophotography has always been an interest of mine... somewhat more so in the timeframe when I got serious about photography and decided to participate in the DPR forums. Perhaps a little less so these days. So, for lack of a better name, I went with that one. PDX is the airport designation where I live (Portland, Oregon). There ya go, Ulrik... mystery solved. :-)

Jerry