The Wilderness Ride * 7 days – 6 nights

The Wilderness Ride is one of our more challenging rides. Those wishing to participate must have prior riding experience as you will spend at least 6 hours in the saddle each day. Some of the riding is through challenging terrain and the scenery is breath taking.

Day 1
Guests arrive at the ranch before dinner and settle into accommodation. Supper at 6:00, entertainment, bed

Day 2
All your meals and meeting your horse for the week, orientation lesson and a couple of trail rides.

Day 3
Breakfast, bring your gear down to the truck, out to the corrals, up into the saddle, and up to the Gang Corrals. You will arrive about 3:00 pm, unpack and settle into your tents, dinner, campfire and goodnight!

Day 4
Out of the Corrals: We ride out through a mix of open grassland, pine and fir. Riding down a short ridge on the edge of the Fraser River we have a spectacular view of red rock pinnacles known as the Hoodoos. Along the way we’ll view ridges, deep hollows and gullies covered with sagebrush and the occasional Ponderosa pine. As we ride down towards the river we will witness plateaus interspersed with deep gullies, bluffs that have been ripped and torn by thousands of years of water erosion forming vertical gullies and rifts. We will visit an active Cow Camp, where the OK Ranch winters 300 or more of their herd for part of each winter. Then we will slowly climb back up Big Bar Mountain and go back to camp, skirting patches of pine, fir and poplar along the way. It’s a long day!

Day 5
From our camp takes us up through grassland and scattered timber across a draw with a spring of good fresh water running in the bottom of it. Climbing steadily through open meadows and timbered slopes following an old wagon road, we come to what is called The Lookout. There is a one hundred and eighty degree view from this high point. South we have a view of the wide expanse of Big Bar Mountain with its open grasslands bordered and divided by stands and runs of pine, fir and poplar. Looking across the canyon at Big Bar Creek we see Starvation Ridge, Mount Bowman, High Bar and Kostring Mountains. Looking west across the Fraser River we can see the snow capped peaks of Big Dog, Red and Black Dome mountains. Dropping down off The Lookout, we wind our way through a pine forest to a series of open meadows and flats with a scattering of Ponderosa pine. From these we head back through the scattered timber and open meadows back to our camp.

Day 6
Sees riders return to the ranch by a different trail, arrival by 3:00pm, unpack, settle back into your accommodations, shower, dinner at 6:00 pm, branding by the campfire, bed

Day 7
Departure day is breakfast, some fun stuff with the horses, lunch and then a fond farewell.

Please call for scheduling, availability and prices.

* We must have 4 riders in order to take out the ride. If we fail to fill the ride a full refund will be granted.