Guest Ranch Weekly Schedule

You will not need your watch – take it off!

Sunday Afternoon

• Guests arrive & settle in rooms
• Take a deep breath!
• Tour ranch & meet horses & staff
• “Barn Orientation Class” – Ground Manners, Catching, Haltering, Leading & Tieing

Evening

• Hospitality & appetizers on front porch
• Supper & ranch orientation & meet folks
• Introduction to Cowboy Poetry
• Sunset hike
• Dessert for those who return (Just Kidding!)

Monday Morning

• Breakfast
• Barn orientation – “Horse Instincts and Communication”
• Arena demo and practice (Walk, Whoa, Turn)
• First ride for skills practice and/or arena time

Afternoon

• Lunch at picnic tables
• Start horseshoe tournament!
• Ride horses into National Forest, to Bubba’s Hill or Lady Moon or Hunter’s Camp or Aspen Canyon

Evening

• Appetizers on front porch
• Supper
• Square Dancing Lessons!

Tuesday Morning

• Breakfast
• Rock Climbing Class at Stoney Point Hill
• Lunch
• Horse grooming & tack lesson (This is where we teach guests how to do our chores!)
• Ride to Bubba’s Hill or Lady Moon or Hunter’s Camp or Aspen Canyon

Evening

• Kids cookout & scavenger hunt & field games & stories at the fire & sleep-out at tipi
• Adult hospitality & candle light dinner (generally interrupted once, by kids to show off their seven kinds of poop found on scavenger hunt… horse, donkey, goat, sheep, rabbit, chicken…etc.)
• Adult quiet evening of conversation on front porch.

Wednesday Morning

• Breakfast
• Horse grooming and tack
• Mt. Margaret Trail Head(all day) ride

Afternoon

• Lunch at Mt. Margaret trail head
• Ride, hike, play
• Return to fish, rifle & trap range
• Some prefer to nap, read or soak in Jaccuzzi after 5-7 hours in the saddle!

Evening

• Appetizers & Dinner
• Evening campfire with s’mores and cowboy singers Lars & Amy Larson.

Thursday Morning

• Breakfast
• Riflery or Rock Climbing or Sightseeing Old Town before Rafting
• Pack Lunches

Afternoon

• Rafting or Sightseeing
  • - Old Town Ft. Collins
  • - Rocky Mtn. Nat’lPark
  • - Laramie Territorial Prison
• Some rafters stay in town to explore, shop and/or enjoy dinner in “Old Town” Ft. Collins after their white water adventure.
• Dinner & free evening

Friday Morning

• Ride to destination of your choice (There are lots and lots of trails still to explore!)

Afternoon.

• Lunch at “Lunch Rock” in the forest, then
• Last Chance to try what you haven’t done yet.
• Your choice:
• Ride, Hike, Fish, Rifle & Trap range, Archery, Roping lessons, Horse shoe tourney

Evening

• Dinner
• Campfire with Cowboy Poetry

Saturday Morning

• • Breakfast
  • Gymkana Arena Games – The Sundance Dude Rodeo!
  • Start Check-out
  • Box lunch or buffet available
  • Hugs & Farewells