TRAILER-SELECTION SECRETS
Here, our trailer expert, H. Kent Sundling (a.k.a. Mr. Truck) gives you inside advice on how to select your next new trailer to maximize safety, comfort, convenience, and economy.
NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP - PONY YOUR TRAIL HORSE
Improve your horsemanship, enhance trail safety, and have more fun on your rides with her simple exercises.
EXPERT FALL-RIDING GUIDE
Engaging stories from the on-trail journal of seasoned Montana horseman and Tennessee Walking Horse breeder, Dan Aadland.
GO GAITED - RIDE RIGHT
Here’s how to improve your riding skills to enhance your on-trail control and comfort, as well as your horse’s long-term soundness.
Craig Cameron Web Exclusive
Watch an exclusive video with Craig Cameron, known by many as the as the “cowboy’s clinician,” and creator/host of the Extreme Cowboy Race. We caught up with Cameron at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo in Eagle, Colorado. (For Cameron’s top trail tips, by noted equine journalist Cynthia McFarland,... read
Avoid an On-Trail Spook
Your horse sees objects far away much better than those nearby. As a prey animal, he's programmed to scan the horizon, searching for predators. His brain is also trained to react to quick movements, such blowing branches and strangely moving unidentified objects--even items that you know... read
Head to Hellroaring Country
Want to ride from a national park into a wilder,ness area? How about riding from one state into another? Would you like to have a "hellroaring" good time? Then join us as we ride and pack through Hellroaring country in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area. Just north of Yellowstone...read
If Tack Could Talk
In my upstairs office above our riding arena, on a wooden coat rack carved to depict a rider leading pack horses, next to a pair of hobbles purchased for me by a friend (they're too pretty to use) hangs a very special bit. By "special" I don't mean "rare." Thousands of United States... read
Big-boned, level-minded, cold-blooded horses can make terrific trail mounts. Here's what draft-horse owners say about their beloved equine friends. | magazine only
Craig Cameron's Top Trail Tips
We chat with this "cowboy's clinician" and creator/host of The Extreme Cowboy Race about all things trail. | magazine only
Head to Hellroaring Country
Brave the wilds of Hellroaring Country, located in Montan's vast Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, just north of Yellowstone. An in-saddle report. | magazine only
A Horseman's Favorite Things
In times of economic stress, maybe it's good therapy to reflect on the things we truly love, such as a good horse, a comfortable camp, and a beckoning trail. | magazine only
