Trip 3 Day 13 -- Hiking, ATV'ing, Horseback Riding, and Rodeo

This morning, the family went hiking to Brooks Falls, across high alpine meadows, through dense pine forests... the falls were magnificent and very high and impressive, filling a full frame with the camera turned sideways.  Sadly, Blogger won't post a sideways picture properly.

We then drove up to Brooks Lake.  What you can't see in this family portrait are the billion mosquitoes which drove us back into the cars seconds after this picture was taken.  Kudos to everyone for putting up with the nasty critters for the 10 seconds it took the timer to snap this photo.

After lunch, the boys, mom, and dad went ATV 4-wheeling, way up atop Union Pass.  Another gorgeous alpine meado with astounding views that take your breath away.

While the boys and parents were having fun off-roading on the trails atop Union Pass, the girls were busy horseback riding again.

 The wildflowers were amazing up on top of the alpine ridges.

 There is a wildfire burning that has been burning for a week about 30 miles north of where this photo was taken.  The fire covers 4000 acres.  Fortunately, the wind is blowing away from our cabin.  The forest service allows such lightning-started fires to burn freely unless they are threatening structures or otherwise causing problems.  Since this fire is in the wilderness and miles from anything, including trails, roads. etc., there is no harm in letting nature run its course.  While the smoke looks close, it is actually more than 30 miles to the north.

After dinner, we rode into town and attended a real Wyoming cowboy rodeo, complete with bull riding, bronc busting, little tykes riding bighorn sheep, cowgirl shamrock racing, calf roping, etc.

Here are some more pics of the happy couple.  Leave a comment about which picture you like best to help the couple decide which one is best.

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Pic 3:  again, Blogger won't properly orient the photo.  Does anyone have any idea how to get Blogger to orient the photo correctly?  I've already tried rotating it and then saving it rotated in both MS Picture Manager and Photoshop, and those programs (and others) correct orient the rotated photo, but the rotation is undone when Blogger displays the pic.

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