Dennis Anderson has been handling chainsaws as a professional for almost 50 years. He will give our education presentation this Tuesday at the Portneuf River Back Country Chapter meeting. Dennis was the owner of Top Notch Tree Service (his sons now run the business) and one of the founding members of our Chapter back in 2014. 

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Congratulations to Bill Lewis for receiving a 2021 Scout Honor Award for service in the Scout Mountain District of the Grand Teton Council.

website with good starting videos on trail design and repair

PAST PRBCH MEETING APR 13, 2021
Includes the presentation by Justin Dayley
 Owner of Dayley Horseshoeing, LLC and Director of ISU Outdoor  Recreation Center. His presentation will include appropriate hoof care, common hoof ailments, types of shoes, boots, barefoot trimming and more.

Past Ride Pictures + Portraits + Events

To see past ride pictures and videos click the link below. It will switch to the Flickr website where there are albums of numerous rides taken by the Portneuf River Back Country Horseman and the Over the Hill Gang (OTHG). If you ride a gaited horse you may want to click FRIENDS in the menu above for more information about the OTHG. 

Etiquette for trail users (https://youtu.be/gFj3J6YIlzo​)

Finding a Lost Phone

The picture above was taken on the Mahogany Trail looking east toward the Teton Range. The Mahogany Trail is 15 miles long and has 2,800 ft of climbing. The ride is mostly through forest and leads up to a high meadow called Elk Flat. One of the riders showed us a sheep camp where a spring provided pure drinking water for our lunch. For those that want to go further, the ride continues all the way to the top of Garn’s Peak, the highest point in the Big Hole Mountains
On this ride I lost my phone on the trip back to the trailers. Summer growth along the trail was thick. There was no hope of finding the phone by going back up the trail. I was resigned to my fate of being $75 poorer, not having my best ever phone case, somehow getting another phone as fast as possible, the hassle of applying for a copy of my driving license and going to the bank for a new debit card.

​It didn't occur to me until I got back to Pocatello that I had used my computer a long time ago to find my phone. I knew there was no time to waste. The phone would be dead before morning. Finding the site on the internet was easy and in no time, I had the phone's location shown on a google map, plus the phones coordinates in latitude and longitude. Because I use Google and my phone is a Samsung the site I used was Google find my Device. The picture below shows what the site looks like. This example is where my phone was while writing his story.
Well the story has a good and bad ending. The bad part is was I had to drive 4 hours and take another 8-mile ride to get the phone. The good ending is I found the phone safe and sound. It was hidden deep in brush and it would never be found otherwise by anybody. So, if you lose your phone (or someone steals it), get on the computer right away and find its location, either as an address or if off road then with latitude and longitude. You might be mortified to realize that you need the GPS app on your phone to find your phone.

Calling in a Helicopter

Summer 2019: A member of the Over the Hill Gang passed out and fell off his horse. He woke up and was groggy but had no symptoms or signs of cardiovascular, muscular, nervous or mental problems except just general tiredness and weakness. At the time we had no way to measure blood pressure or blood sugar. He had been perfectly well at lunch. Anyway to make a long story short we called in the air ambulance. They didn't find anything either but he was still dozy and weak and unable to ride back to the trailers. So this hilicopter trip is going to cost 56 thousand  dollars. A word to the wise is to check your health insurance for such coverage.