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Show ! Regular Horseback Rides Offered This Summer Mr Scenic Moab Areas J BY DICK WILSON Saddle up for a horseback pide through Moab's Mill freek Canyon. This is what J did this week and enjoyed every trot, canter and gallop on a horse named Star. Star is one of the gentle riding horses which R. 0. Dick) Horstmann of Moab Is putting into business. Mr. ; Horstmann, whose stables are I located at 1950 Mill Creek I brive, has opened a saddle horse trip called the Slow !. Poke Trail Ride. Horstmann ft pr his associate in business. ?, Marge Petersen, will be lead-tj lead-tj Jng the trip daily according ' to the demand this season. I I've been covering too j Jnuch of the Canyon Country f !on wheels and as a consequence conse-quence had almost forgotten the pleasure of taking a' horse along a western trail, j i Horstmann had Star all a Saddled up and raring to go ! yiien I arrived at his stable last week. Horstmann mounted mount-ed himself on Blaze and we departed down the trail. Ptoj-iders included Marge Petersen on Sniffer, Jerry Christian on Goldene, and Triple Inde, a young filly, ran loose for the fun of running. run-ning. Also along for the ride was Mrs. Frank Hanes of Moab who bad her own horse. Our route lay along Mill Creek where it erupts from between red rock walls east of Moab, I settled back in the saddle, having a feeling of total relaxation totally unlike un-like my experiences with vehicles. ve-hicles. I discovered that one of the very best ways to enjoy scenery is by horseback. On a trail bike or even by walking walk-ing ycu have to watch scenery scen-ery only in spurst, most of the attention being taken by watching where you're go- Not so with horses. They are a computerized package of appendages and know just where and how to place each hoof for the best comfort of the rider. I say this with reservations not all horses are the same and not all horses care to give comfort. But I let Star do the thinking think-ing and I did the sightseeing. Mill Creek Canyon by horseback horse-back is a lovely experience Just past the power dam, the tall sandstone walls rise vertically ver-tically from the stream. Left Fork (known also as North Fork of Mill Creek) is a slot between the walls which joins the main stream. We rode past the mouth of Left Fork, which Horstmann says is impossible to ride. The trail follows along the banks of the stream in places plac-es but in several other places the horses must walk in the stream itself. Horstmann has chosen an excellent canyon for conduct- ing horseback tours. It would be difficult to find a more scenic ride than along the stream in Mill Creek Canyon. Can-yon. South of the junction of ihe two streams the walls in places are characttrized by pinnacles hundreds of feet high. Rounding these spires we came into view of Haystack Hay-stack Mountain, a majestic snow-capped peak in the La-Sale. La-Sale. From the bottom of the canyon and with red walls on either side, this is another one of Moab's Million Dollar Views. Dick Horstmann is well known in Moab for his wood Products Shop. He specializes specializ-es in all types of wood work such as refinishing furniture, cabinets, and houses, and restoring horse-drawn buggies bug-gies and wagons. His new enterprise en-terprise of taking persons on trail rides is an outgrowth of his love for horses. Horstmann is the vice president pre-sident of the Red Rock Riders Rid-ers and is a graduate of Professor Pro-fessor Berry's School of Horse Training. His and Marge Petersen's Slow Poke Trail Ride answers a need Moab has had for some time. Increasing numbers of tourists tour-ists are finding this community com-munity an ideal spot to vacation va-cation and they need a variety var-iety of things to do. The saddle sad-dle ride through Mill Creek Canyon is an excellent close-to-town trip and one that visitors vis-itors will never forget. |
