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O.K. this probably doesn't belong in a hike triplog, even though horseback is listed as a category, but it is just odd enough I had to share. A friend of mine owns the ranch on the entire south side of the Dos Cabezas Mountains. He's the guy you call to get access to the road to the peak. The reason the gate is locked is because campers and parties trashed the place on a regular basis, shot up his water tanks and vandalized the wells. I digress. He invited me to help with his roundup of the cattle which involved riding up all the canyons and driving them back to the ranch headquarters to be branded, castrated and, sorted for selling. We saddled up before dawn and headed up the mountain. We found cows and calves on hillsides that acted more like deer than bovines. Thank God my trusty mule "Rosie" was there to make me look good. She had obviously herded cattle in her previous life and made me look like a natural. I castrated and vaccinated lots of calves and the rancher asked me to remove a cow's eye that had cancer. The picture looks graphic but rest assured as a veterinarian I used lots of local anesthetic. This weekend I' renting the movie City Slickers to re-live the experience. |
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