Chasing Wild Mustangs!

Having a family full of outdoor enthusiasts, you never know what kind of adventure you will find yourself on. Someway or another we found ourselves chasing wild mustangs. There's a great spot we know of that we have good results of finding the horses. We checked the weather forecast and figured it would be a good day to go explore. We would have 2 UTV's going on the trip, a Polaris Ranger Crew and a Yamaha Rhino. These vehicles are slightly better suited for the trip because of some of the narrow and overgrown roads. After a beautiful drive through the high desert, we arrived at the staging area. There were some dove that fluttered around the crystal clear spring as we loaded up the ice chests and gathered our gear.

There is a cool old cabin where we stage (below)

It looks like someone has redone the corral (below)

Gettin' ready (below)

Off in the distance we saw a trail of dust. A truck you ask? No, a herd of running horses! Imagine that, we didn't even have to drive anywhere, they were right there at the staging area.(below)

We hopped in the UTV's and drove up the road and intersected the horses on their jaunt. Check out the video below:

We continued on, down the road that goes on forever! (below)

We came up onto Pizona Spring. Quite the green wonderland out in the dry desert! (below)

We came up on Upper Pizona Spring, pretty overgrown at times, but pretty (below)

Next we came into McNamara Lake which is usually dry (below)

Shortly after we came into McBride flat. What a nice area! (below)

There's an old windmill out there, doesn't look like it's been used for awhile (below)

A house of some sort out at McBride Spring (below)

Looking back across McBride Flat towards the Sierra Nevada mountain range. We hung out a for a few minutes and chased some Chuckar (below)

After a quick break, we continued onto Sagehen Springs and had lunch (below)

A few remnants of days past left out there (below)

We left and headed down towards Truman Meadows. This is descending looking south towards Upper Truman Meadows (below)

Down in the Truman Spring (below)

Taking a quick break (below)

Beautiful day out there! (below)

Montgomery and Boundary Peak in the back (below)

Here a pack station stages their horses (below)

Check out this natural rock wall! (below)

We headed up through the rest of Truman Meadows and back towards Sagehen. While we were driving safe, it looks like someone had a minor 'oopsies' at some point prior (below)

I really liked this tree (below)

A teepee ring from people long ago (below)

Awesome clouds! (below)

We started looping back as it was getting late. Here we are looking down on McBride Flat (below)

The lead Rhino was moving across McBride Flat when we noticed a trail of dust coming from the left. 6 wild mustangs at full sprint crossing the flat, directly on a collision course with the Rhino. The Rhino stopped 15 yards short and watched in awe as wild horses raced by directly in front of them. (below, horses on left, Rhino dust trail on right)

We drove back through Pizona and tried to imagine who lived in this old structure (below)

We finally reached the trucks after 50 miles of exploration. Some horses were still out in the valley. (below)

We loaded up and bid farewell to the horses until next time. We had another great trip down in the books!