December Blog Update

 

Hello Everyone!

Just a quick camp update – we are staying busy caring for the horses, getting the 2025 Day Camp registration ready, and gearing up for a busy month of January.

The horses are all super shaggy this time of year with their winter coats (especially our two mini ponies Luna and Junebug. For some reason they get extra fluffy in the winter!). 

We let all of the horses out to pasture now and then to stretch their legs. Even though there isn’t grass to eat, they still enjoy getting out to roam around. We got four new horses this fall and three are geldings and one is a mare. The geldings are Maverick (a paint), Rio (a bay), and Zorro (also bay). 

The mare is Aspen and she’s also bay. (We'll try to get some pictures of her to post!) We have Aspen paired up with Mocha right now so she has a buddy and the geldings are all together with Yogi.

Day camp registration will open soon for 2025 – we are looking forward to another great summer!

January is going to be a busy month for us as we have a Wilderness First Responder Course and two UW groups. We house and feed the them, so between that and keeping the horses taken care of, we won’t be bored!

February and March are typically slower months here for us, but then by April we will start to run Saturday programs again. We have a couple of Girl Scout Horse Lover’s Days scheduled and will be getting our Saturday camps set up soon too.

Well, that’s all for now. We hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving and from our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Fall Blog Update

 Hi Everyone!

We have been sooooooooo busy here at camp since summer ended, but we wanted to give you a little snapshot of what we've been up to. 

We have had several Girl Scout Horse Lover's Days, a few UW groups have done retreats here, and of course we have had our Saturday camps also. There are always the day to day things like feeding and graining the horses, goats, and sheep. The horses get out to pasture for a few hours every day also, which they love. We have also been fixing some fences that needed work and getting firewood in for the winter months.

Here are some pictures from one of our Saturday camps!

Wrapping up Week 10!

 Wrapping up Week 10!

Somehow we've reached the end of the summer already! We had a FABULOUS final week and really enjoyed the past couple of days. On Thursday we had the normal riding lesson and then learned about Equestrian Olympic sports! For the craft, we made picture frames and horse collages. Thursday afternoon campers rode the lesson plan they had planned out on Wednesday, played "Hoofbeat Bingo," and "adopted a horse". "Adopting a horse" meant each group adopted Mocha, Gandalf, or Pirate and made stall decorations for them! The themes were amazing! 

Today we learned about horse genetics and got to see a very complicated Hoofbeat horse family tree, had a typical riding lesson, and made wooden horseshoe wind chimes! The afternoon was filled with fun, relaxing activities. We went on a hayride, had a campfire and a s'more, and visited our camp store! The final ride of the week was a bareback ride! Some horses were more comfortable without a saddle than others, but we had a great time. Thank you all for a great week!