Gathering & Sorting Cattle
 (July- Mid September)

“Summer time and the livin’ is easy…”.

During the summer there’s always cattle work to be done.  Early July is the time of year when we move cows and calves from the basin to our high mountain pastures. 

Our Angus herd shares over 100,000 acres with wild horses and free-range livestock.

You’ll help us as we gather and sort cow/calf pairs at the stockyards and prepare them to make the 40-mile trip up the mountain via Flitner Ranch semi-trucks. Upon arrival, the cows and calves need to be paired back up and herded from horseback to their summer grazing meadows.  This is one of the prettiest times to visit The Hideout. 

Your travels will take you from high desert prairies surrounded by the beauty of the painted hills, up jagged trails cached between pinon pine and shale slides, through wide open mountain meadows and nestle you amid bowers of high pine forests. 

Don’t forget your camera for this trip. 

It’s quite common to view an amazing variety of wildlife including elk, deer and moose.  Spontaneous fishing breaks have been known to occur on the mountain.