There are several horse ranches around West Yellowstone that offer horseback riding.  We chose one and took a 2-hour ride through the hills to a small lake.  We both ended up pretty sore as I’ve never really ridden a horse and it’s been years and years since Jeff has, but we both enjoyed the ride and the scenery very much.

There were 4 of us for the ride, one “wrangler” – a 23-year old girl who’s going to college in Virginia and comes to West Yellowstone every summer to work with on the ranch, Jeff and me, and a boy around 18 who was here with his mother and others to do a photo shoot at the horse ranch.  He didn’t have anything to do on this day so decided to take a ride, the next day he was going to be in the shoot and wouldn’t have a chance to do anything else.

My horse was named Sunny and she seemed a bit more high-strung than the other horses.  She wanted to be right up against the horse in front of us and when I pulled her back she would toss her head and bounce around a bit.  Ouch!  I noticed that Jeff’s horse Hawk didn’t do that.  But both horses knew the trail and were great to ride.

Here’s a few pictures of our ride: