keep the doggies rolling...

I've been at the Linn Ranch for three weeks now.  Three weeks that passed by like a fractured notion of time.  Perhaps that has something to do with "horse time" or the absence of it when I am working and riding horses, or it just might have something to do with finding myself amongst really good people who make all time time well spent.  But now, today I am leaving.  I have a fairly organized pile of clothes and gear stacked around me next to a smaller sized pile of clothes and gear that belong to my new riding partner- Peter Linn.  Yup, I've got a hitchhiker!  And my hitchhiker travels by horse and guides in the Tetons professionally and has for pretty much his entire life.  So that means we are hitting the high country on horseback and will be, for the most part, heading northwest towards Bellingham on probably the most scenic route available.  As it would be, it is nearly snowing here today and I won't be surprised if we find ourselves walking up the trail in an early fall blizzard.  Apparently the forecast said something like a "severe cold trough" would be sweeping through today and tonight.  Hmmm...  I don't even know what that means exactly and if I were traveling by myself you would be able to bet money on me delaying the departure.  But somehow, with company along I have developed a greater sense of invincibility!  As false as that may be it's more credible than me braving storms by myself or proposing wars with windmills without Sancho by my side.  Unfortunately I can't post any pictures of this last layover.  I am having some technical difficulties and as much as I have pleaded with my internet devices they still turn their noses up and shrug back their shoulders unsympathetically.  So  maybe in time I will be able to do some swindling and at least get a few images up of all the horse moving and dawggie chasing we've been doing while at the Linn Canyon Ranch.  Until then, Peter Linn and I will be making tracks up through Yellowstone National Park on our way to Montana!  Hi Ho!