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Horseback Riding
 Our excellent horseback-riding program is tailored to your experience level from the beginner to the intermediate and advanced. We are so pleased that you are coming to enjoy trail rides through miles of beautiful mountains and open meadows, twice per day if you would like. By the end of the week we hope that you have worked your way up to going on the all-day trail ride near the end of the week; 5-6 hrs in the saddle! Please keep in mind that we are here to teach you to ride and handle your horse! We want you to learn to become a better rider so that by the end of the week you have qualified for our more advanced rides and activities. Everyone is welcome to take organized lessons in our large arena or practice horsemanship skills. For those who are interested and are capable, we keep a small herd of steers to teach our guests the fundamentals of working cattle and team penning.
Horseback riding program: Walking, Trotting, and Loping
At KMR we understand that you don?t want to just walk your horses all day long, so we offer 3 different levels of rides. In the beginning of the week you can choose to head out on our walk rides, and then start progressing to the trot and loping rides. We will offer riding instruction and lessons throughout the week to help you gain the ability and confidence to ride at a faster gait.
Breakfast ride:
On our breakfast ride we will leave the barn around 8am and take about an hour ride and end up at our breakfast site. There our wranglers will prepare a cowboy breakfast over an open fire. After breakfast you will have the option of continuing for a longer ride, or heading back to the ranch to enjoy one of our other activities. Remember we talked about smoothing out the rough edges here at KMR, well we have installed a bathroom facility and hand washing station at our wooded breakfast site.
Lunch Rides:
A couple of time during the week we offer a lunch ride. This ride is exactly what it sounds like?you will eat lunch while out on a trail ride. I can?t tell you now, but there is a special secret planed for lunch.
 All Day Rides:
This ride is not for the faint of heart, its over 12 miles of mountain terrain. If you choose to sign up for this ride (must be approved by a wrangler) you will leave the barn at about 10am, and we don?t expect you back until about 4pm. You will see some beautiful country and trust me; you will be a bit sore and tired by the time you get back to the ranch.
Arena Lessons
Throughout your stay at our ranch we will be doing our best to improve your horsemanship skills, in and out of the saddle. We will be offering group and private lessons in our arena to help you feel as comfortable as possible in the saddle.
Arena Games
Twice per week we will have area games and a modified ranch rodeo. This is where you can try your hand at a few rodeo events. Sorry our insurance carrier will not allow you to rope a live steer, but you will have plenty of fun herding cows in the team penning events. We will have many different modified events like pole bending, barrel racing, relay races, wild bronc riding (ok we were kidding about that one).
Team Penning
Team penning is a popular activity here at KMR. This is where you get the opportunity to sort a few marked steers from a small herd, then drive them to the other side of the arena and push them into a small pen?all while horseback. Sounds easy huh, well we will see. Expect plenty of smiles and lots of laughter.
Wagon Rides
A few times during the week we will hitch up the team and offer a ride on real steal wheel wooden wagon, not a rubber tire impersonator like some places. You may get the opportunity to feed our herd of horses from the wagon, or just enjoy a ride to the Friday night BBQ.
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