Ranch, Dude!

In August, we headed for Big Bar Ranch, for Liz's 40th birthday.

Imagine driving 4.5 hours north of Whistler on twisty mountain roads, then 50 km in on a dirty road. You would figure you'd reached the middle of nowhere, and you'd be right!!

The ranch is in the middle of a huge working ranch. Here the dude ranch horses can be seen in their corral, just a few steps from our cabin.

Notice there are no high-speed Internet lines in sight! Never could get the shared pay phone in the ranch house to talk to even the local ISP!!
This styling guy is one of the wranglers, who also works for various horse breeders in the area.

A campfire on Lizzy's birthday eve was just the ticket.
Actually, it was just a warm-up to getting branded! Dave was brave enough to demonstrate.

Don't be afraid though: he's got a big stack of National Geographic magazines between his pocket and anything fleshy. Just the jeans were seared!

(In fact I'm wearing these jeans as I write this!)

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Last updated 08 January 2003 .