7D Ranch
Last guest week, artist week, and a wedding….
This was suppose to be put up about a month ago, better late than never! Written by our head cook Grace. In the morning, the guests walk outside and feel the crisp cold air. Crunch, crunch is heard as their footsteps touch the thick frosty dew. The sun coming up over the mountains with [...]
Winding Down
Sun continues to shine into the basin here at the 7D Ranch. There have been many shifts and changes in the staff recently; we are down to 12 staff members as Meade and Chris Scheer have bid us farewell to return to guiding hunters. Carol finished second in her rodeo event, Breakaway Roping, and fourth [...]
Still in High Gear
The weeks continue to fly by here at the 7D. Already the evenings and mornings have turned chilly, and it’s no longer light out until almost 10! These last weeks of August mean we say goodbye to large numbers of our staff who are returning to school and jobs that start back up in the [...]
A Foal is Born
Early Monday morning our horse Pigeon finally gave birth, and we welcomed a newborn foal into the group in the corralls. The birth was a success, and both Pigeon and her baby, Basin, are doing well. We will have pictures up on facebook hopefully by tomorrow if the internet cooperates! Last week we had a [...]
Comings and Goings
It’s a rainy day here at the 7D, and the air smells like fall. The rain gives the ranch a fresh, clean, and rejuvenated feeling on this Monday morning. We are halfway through our guest season for the summer, and change is in the air. Yesterday we said farewell to Peter, our beloved ranch hand and [...]
Hot Fun in the Summertime
It’s mid July, the weather is heating up, and the summer feels like it’s in full swing. Things here are the ranch have been going very smoothly, with five terrific guest weeks under our belts and another great one already under way. For week six we have a slightly smaller group of guests than in [...]
Week 5 Welcome
We are now into week five of our summer guest season as we welcome another wonderful group of people to the 7D. This morning they all headed out to get acquainted with the horses and the wranglers. The sun is shining, and the river has receded enough so that the arena is drying up and [...]
Happy Birthday USA
It’s the 4th of July, and what better place to be for it than here at the 7D? We had a preliminary celebration to say farewell to our long time returning guests from last week, complete with fireworks, two birthday cakes, kids and adults dressed up in some of our Gym Khana attire, and a human pyramid. We [...]
Summer is Under Way
We are now in our third official guest week here at the 7D, and the summer season is truly under way. Family week was a blast, and as usual the Dominicks were a huge help to our staff. We completed numerous projects, including staining many of our cabins, refinishing the Rec Hall floor, and planting flowers [...]
