Snow Dances

It’s nice to know that Mother Nature can call us all out on ever thinking we can control anything in life.   After last winter’s amazing snow fall, breaking records left and right, and leaving us piles of snow to start our summer season in June, this winter has gone the other direction.  As you…

Deja Vu

It seems like I have posted pictures of a “new team” several times in the past couple years.  Yes, we have struggled a bit to find a good pair to replace Zig and Zag.  If I am counting correctly, I think we have tried 4 times.  And, we are really hoping that the 4th time…

Leaving the Ranch

I love, love, love this post that we just had on our Facebook page from Ann: This picture is my daughter who was so sad to leave Vista Verde yesterday. Last Sunday my kiddos headed out for an awesome trail ride while I back-country skied across frozen Hahn’s Peak Lake with one of your amazing…

‘Tis the Season

Here we are, 5 days until we open for the season, and despite the wintery feel outside, the heat is definitely turned up at the Ranch these days.  For those of you who follow this blog, you may notice a direct correlation with our orientation weeks and me falling off the blogging bandwagon.  It’s a…

New budget rooms at Vista Verde

We’ve added some new accommodations to the ranch.  No, we haven’t expanded our capacity for people.  We’ve expanded it for horses!  After several years learning how the beautiful indoor arena fits into our program, we are finding that we need the ability to house more horses indoors.  So, this fall, we took on a project…

Shuffling Horses

By guest blogger- Reid Morgan November at Vista Verde means many different things, but in the horse department, it means preparing our herd for the rigors of a Steamboat Springs Winter. We’ve been moving horses around from pasture to pasture, building new stalls in the indoor arena for some “5 star” horse living quarters, and…