~~~Star, the self-styled official greeter at Western Pleasure Guest Ranch.~~~

Yesterday I drove up to Western Pleasure Guest Ranch. It's a beautiful spot about 16 miles northeast of Sandpoint where the year around couples have been married, corporations have held retreats, cattlemen and cattle ladies have gathered for meetings, quilters have quilted, folks have enjoyed sleigh rides and live fiddle music. Over the years, guests from around the country and world have traveled the hundreds of acres of beautiful scenery from the top side of a horse.

I've known the owners, Roley and Janice, most of their lives. They're fun, hard-working folks who take great pride in the place and offer generous hospitality.

Of late, Janice has become quite the geocacher. There's nothing she loves better than to go on a trail ride in North Idaho, take along a new cache and plant it in a nice spot for others to come find.

The ranch is set on Wood family holdings where Humbird Lumber Co. once had its logging railroads and camps. Some of the old grades are still very prominent on the property.

It's a beautiful spot, and I cannot think of a time where I did not come away with good memories. Heck, I even met Baxter Black at Western Pleasure several years ago while Boots Reynolds was being roasted for 25 years of submitting his cartoons to Leanin' Tree cards.

More photos below. Western Pleasure has a website where you can learn all about it. http://www.westernpleasureranch.com/